Ben Wikler
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485 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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On the right, you can see this with Ralph Reed's organization.
He used to do the Christian Coalition, now it's the Faith and Freedom Coalition.
On the Democratic side, there are groups doing versions of this kind of work.
I think Swing Left is doing amazing work.
Move On, where I used to work, does a ton of organizing at the grassroots, Indivisible.
I could go on with that list.
And some Democratic Party organizations do this.
But if you just wait until right before an election, you cannot build that trust from scratch.
You actually have to show up long before you're asking someone for their vote and actually listen to them, as we talked about before.
To me, the...
Amazing thing about the Obama campaign was that they and they started outside the Democratic Party infrastructure.
They had to figure out a different way to win.
They did this hard work of actually building local teams of people who are acting on their own values and building community.
And they were able to win the White House.
But because it was built around one candidate, it didn't wind up creating this kind of permanent infrastructure.
And that to me.
You know, we beat Trump in 2020.
It was this incredible thing.
And then in so many places, that organizing infrastructure melted away.
So much of the funding for this kind of work melted away.
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