Adam Gurri

It's free elections for some, just like the Jim Crow South was free elections for some.

Yeah, I mean, everything has its failure mode, right?

There's no perfect...

Again, to return to Jacob Levy, my guiding star, his big book was Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom.

And the idea between the first two of those names is there's a liberalism that is rationalist in the sense of trying to impose a single way of liberalism on the whole country.

And there's a liberalism that is about pluralism specifically, not just allowing difference, but also actually like federalism and checks and balances versus a more assertive liberalism.

And the funny thing is that people think of libertarianism as being minimalist, but it's not.

Libertarianism is absolutely a rationalism, which is why they like people like Pinochet in as much as they do.

Not to say that all libertarians do, right?

But the libertarians that went for Pinochet, it's because...

libertarians often have a very rationalistic idea, which is that everyone should have some categorical property rights, no matter where they are in the country, no matter who they are.

And if a dictator comes and imposes that on everybody, great.

You know, that's one way to do it.

So that's why that's one failure mode of the rationalist strain.

The pluralist strain says, no, like you've got to,

have some buttresses against central power.

You know, let's have federalism so that some things are administered at a level that's closer to people and more responsive to them likely.

And also allows for some differences.

You can have Quebec that has, you know, they mostly speak French and you can have the rest of Canada that mostly speaks English in most contexts.

And you can have,