Marcion Soger here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

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Yes, speaking of which we have Mr. Z from SoCal. I really like your guys' unique user names

that we're sort of going with. We've got Mermer 922. Okay, Scotty, that one's kind of boring,

Seth, not great, but Mr. Z, you have won the Year's in A with the Week. Actually, that's why I actually

picked out your question because it sort of stuck out to me. So to Mr. Z's question, you continually

mention using economic means to achieve conservative goals, but really elaborate on what exactly you mean by

that. Is it a strong family-based culture? Is that the extent of conservative goals for you? To what

extent does that go? Realize that maybe a personal question, but I'm genuinely curious. So quick context

for this question. I'm glad he brought it up. It came up in the Orrincast episode. It actually comes

out in today's episode. And I think this came up with Zad Jalani, Andrew Yang, this recurring theme

of what is the actual means of achieving conservative public policy goals? Because what this basically

relates to is this debate on the right about whether libertarian small government, those sort of

policies are the way you could make conservatives happy, or whether conservatives should be comfortable

using the power of government to advance their means. So, Sogge, what's your sort of perspective on that?

Yeah, I think all conservatism comes down to the family unit. And maybe that seems a lot, and a

lot of people do disagree with this. So when I say using economic means to achieve conservative ends,

what I mean by that is incentivizing the structures in American, not just American life,

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