Adam Gurri

So even more than professional politicians, I would say professional parties.

Okay.

But they go hand in hand, right?

Our system is extremely candidate driven.

And the way that I...

So we have the primary system, right?

And the primary system is just wide open.

And if we didn't have the primary system, we would not have Donald Trump.

That's just 100% the case.

No one in the Republican Party wanted Donald Trump to be the nominee in 2016.

They had no power to stop him.

Yeah, yeah, 100%.

So there's two basic things.

One is just simply there's a party organization that picks their candidates, period.

Usually it's a little more complicated than that, but we'll just summarize it that way.

There are primaries in other countries, but the only people that can vote in them are dues-paying members of the party.

Hmm.

Um, uh, so like the UK will labor, I think specifically switched to that model.

Um, frankly, it hasn't gone too well for them.

Um, but, uh, but that, you know, that's obviously much more restrictive than what we have, which is essentially an election before an election.