Adam Gurri

Well, unions stop the one worker from getting a sweet deal with the employer in order to break solidarity with the rest.

They enforce a certain discipline.

so that the deal that is made with the employer is the best for all the workers overall.

Politicians and their interactions with interest groups is similar.

Interest groups are not inherently bad.

Interest groups represent real interests in our society.

But what we don't want

is for particular interest groups to overly dominate.

And what happens in a very candidate driven system is one candidate will have their interests that back them and they're just, it's like non-negotiable for them.

And then another candidate will have another set and then this whole thing sort of becomes intractable.

Whereas a strong political party can essentially

negotiate with the interest groups in their coalition overall to get the best overall arrangement for them, plus being able to actually win general elections.

So, you know, it's between the very active interest groups, because not all interests are well organized and represented, plus the electorate overall.

They can actually perform that balancing act better than just cobbling together individual candidates after the fact.

Yeah.

Well, I'm glad you said that because one of the things that we do at Liberal Currents is we try and actually put good ideas into the world about that kind of thing.

I don't know if it's all right for me to mention we have a fundraiser going on right now.

So you're doing the analogous thing.

So one of the things that we hope to do if we're fully funded is this project that we call the Reconstruction Papers.

And the idea of this project is that liberals have spent the last 10 years mostly being anti-Trump and anti-MAGA.