Sarah McBride
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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the groups to want to show their influence and their effect by having politicians fight the fights that they want them to fight in ways that feel viscerally comforting to their own community that they're representing.
And look, I get that.
I understand that.
One, we have to be better as elected officials in saying no, in saying public opinion is everything.
And if you want us to change, you need to help foster the change in public opinion before you're asking these elected officials to betray the fact that they are, at the end of the day, representatives that have to represent in some form or fashion the views of the people that they represent.
At some point, you will represent the people's positions or they will find someone else who will.
And so it is just an unsustainable dynamic for the groups to continue to ask elected officials to take these maximalist positions, to ignore where their voters are.
They have to do the hard work of persuasion.
And there's always going to be a tension between the groups and elected officials.
Everyone has to do their own job, but there has to be some degree of understanding that
Look, all of these decisions inevitably require a balancing of my own views, my own principles, and the views of the people that I represent.
But I think one thing you always have to do is you have to go, okay, here's an issue that I feel very strongly about.
I vote against this.
What are the second, third, and fourth order consequences of voting against or voting in favor?
You might abstractly agree with something as an ideal, but if you were to pursue that or implement that policy, it would have, in the medium to long term,
a regressive effect because there's a backlash to pushing too hard or taking too maximalist of a position by the mainstream in our politics.
One of the problems we've had is that we have said, not only you have to vote the way we want you to vote, but then you have to speak the way we want you to speak.
And I always have said, even when I was an advocate—
if we can get the policy vote that we want and the compromise we are accepting is essentially a rhetorical compromise, that is a pretty darn good deal.
And again, I think we have to be willing to have these conversations out in the open.
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