Nick Troiano

They want these issues to be addressed in a sensible way.

That's not going to happen until we change the incentives of our political system.

Well, first, I would also say on this topic of what is the ideology of this movement that wants to make politics better?

I think centrism comes short in describing it because it really is not about living in what many people view as a mushy middle.

It's about also people that want to find common ground.

So no matter where you are in the political spectrum, you can work with others to see what you have in common to actually get something done.

And that's how the biggest, most durable change that we've seen as a country work.

When we look at the landmark pieces of legislation that have passed the Congress,

whether that was civil rights or social security or Medicare or welfare reform and a balanced budget.

These things were votes of a majority of both parties doing it together and to be sustainable, not what we're seeing today.

The promise of primary reform is that for every state that adopts it, it effectively liberates both senators and the representatives from those states from being beholden to the base to being representative of the whole

And so you don't need to win in all 50 states.

If we can abolish party primaries in 10 states, that's 20 US senators.

It's a fifth of the Senate that actually can have more leaders who are willing to work with each other on issues of national importance.

That's never been more important for the country.

When I think about where we're at right now, facing the rise of artificial intelligence,

whether we get this right in terms of setting the right rules for the road, having the right oversight in place, making the right investments, that's going to be hugely consequential for our economy and national security and our society.

And if we don't have a representative Congress that can do that, other countries will, or the corporations themselves will, and we're all going to be worse off for it.

So whether we have a Congress that works

affects us all.