Tate Brown

There's no market.

There's no idea to sell in the marketplace of ideas like win these people back over.

It's like, no, the only thing they're going to respond to at this point is force.

And so, again, like you said, to your point, I mean—

The Spinas are great, but we need to nip this in the bud right now.

It's a tough calculation because, I mean, you can ask libertarians how that's worked for them, where they, again, withhold their votes expecting, like, a different— I understand that, I guess, to a degree, extensive executive power, again, these politicians, is really more about holding them accountable to their promises.

So it's not a one-to-one.

But generally, like—

It's more about who's staffing these campaigns, who's sort of in charge of implementing policy more so than like reactiveness to the base.

It's just it sucks.

That's just like the way that liberal democracy functions.

And until we escape that, I don't think you're going to see like decisive power wielded by maybe by the executive to a certain degree, but certainly not by Congress.

Yeah, but I was positive, which is great.

Yeah.

Well, and Tim, I totally agree with you because I don't really buy like the, you know, the idea that's like, OK, well, every election ramps up importance.

I totally agree.

Like 1992, the Republican primary, if Pat Buchanan won, we would have been out of this mess already.

Like we would have mopped this up 30 years ago.

And because this illustrates with the redistricting battle, this illustrates the point that I think Orrin McIntyre made where it's like.

look all a all a democracy is at this point all an election is at this point is simply a census all you're doing is just counting what the demographics are of your district there's no like swinging voters anymore and it drives me absolutely like mad that the republicans they're only their only like way they're actually fighting back is like this wholesome chungus like voter drives that you're seeing where they're like i registered 10 000 people at a gas station and it's like sick and then the election comes along we get blown out and it's like