This is a lightly edited transcript of the May 6 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon . You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack . David Dayen: Thanks for having me, Perry. Bacon: So I want to start with the big—you’re the rare person who writes about national politics who is based in California. I wish we had more people who were interested in California because, as we know, it’s the biggest and most important state. And so what I want to talk about first