The Question No One in Politics Has an Answer To

Everyone in politics thinks they have the answers. That’s the problem.

Ask ten strategists what Democrats need to do to win, and you’ll get twelve PowerPoints and zero conviction. One will say “go left,” another will say “move to the middle,” another will say “find better messengers.” But the truth is, we’re asking the wrong question.

The challenge isn’t ideology. It’s infrastructure. The divide isn’t progressive versus moderate. It’s functional versus hollow.

We’ve built a politics that’s good at performance and terrible at maintenance. Our leaders can debate endlessly about message, but most can’t build a field program or train a precinct chair.

That’s why I stopped treating the spectrum as left versus right. The real axis is ascent versus inertia.

The goal isn’t ideological purity. It’s upward movement—for people, for systems, for capacity. That’s what I call Structured Ascent.

It’s about aligning the scale of our solutions with the scale of our problems—what I call Radical Proportionality. Because too often, Democrats offer symbolic answers to structural crises. We pass tax credits for housing and call it a victory while people are still sleeping in tents. We tout record spending while potholes swallow tires.

The old spectrum doesn’t capture this moment. The country doesn’t need a leftward shift or a centrist recalibration. It needs elevation, the climb out of dysfunction into something that actually works.

That’s what my campaign is testing. Can we build a new political model where power is distributed, not hoarded? Where ideology takes a back seat to effectiveness?

Because the question no one has an answer to is this. If not this system, then what? And I think we’re building that answer, piece by piece, from the ground up.