Podcast: Principles First Summit Recap

Last week, I sat down with Matt Germer⁠, director of the Governance Program at the ⁠R Street Institute⁠, a center-right think tank, and Scott Warren⁠, a fellow at the ⁠SNF Agora Institute⁠ at Johns Hopkins University.

Matt and Scott are collaborating to build a “grasstops” network of pro-democracy conservatives. (More about their effort here.) They also shared a stage at the Principles First Summit with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer.

We recapped the Principles First Summit (a center-right alternative to CPAC), talked about their collaboration, and more, including:

• The mood at the conference (energetic!)
• Pro-democracy conservatives’ goals
  • In short, get back to arguing about policy! (Rather than worrying about folks who are trying to change the rules of the game to stay in power.)
• The conservative principles for building trust in elections released last year

Check out our conversation here, above, or wherever you get your podcasts!

Related resources

• Check out recordings from an incredibly rich event, “Conservative Agenda for Democracy,” co-hosted by the R Street Institute and JHU’s SNF Agora Institute last November.
• Principles First Summit recordings here. And check out the organization itself.