Dave Smith

Can the libertarians play spoiler and get some bad Republicans?

You know, we've been the difference before.

We will be again or we could be again.

Could they spoil some bad Republicans and then get some better Republicans in?

Yeah, like there are really cool things that a third party could do.

The real foundational problem is that too big a percentage of the membership are just allergic to anything like that, and they're essentially in it to purity spiral.

Or either that or they've got like this worst form of pragmatism where it's like, well, let's be pragmatic and just run Bill Weld like candidates.

And you're like, yeah, but that'll never win anything.

There's like a good form of radicalism and a good form of pragmatism that could be merged together there.

Anyway, the.

in order for that to happen you would just have to get a bunch more people to join the party who were like-minded it's not that impossible and i think dude there's something like six thousand i think someone said on stage that there's six thousand members now the party is just like completely collapsed it's fallen apart and so it's ripe to be taken over again the thing is

you gotta have a real specific plan so that there's a real specific call to action to get people excited to do something like that.

And as of right now, I don't see it and I don't see how I could be helpful to that cause.

So for me, it just makes sense.

It's like, I'm in the business of communicating these ideas.

I've been able to really insert myself on some huge platforms.

We've been able to build this platform up

I've been able to move the needle on some issues.

And it seems to me like that's what makes sense for me to put my time and energy into.

I just, I do feel bad because I know there's still a lot of R guys, you know, behind enemy lines, so to speak, in the party.