I had the opportunity on Friday to chat live with David Seligman, who’s a labor and consumer protection lawyer, and candidate for Colorado attorney general.
He’s one of a small number of Colorado Democrats who’s staked out the view that the state’s term-limited governor, Jared Polis, should face an impeachment inquiry for granting clemency to the insurrectionist Tina Peters.
This is what I believe as well, so I reached out to him for a conversation about the merits of that question.
We broadened that discussion out to explore the powers of the Colorado attorney generals office, and how they can be pulled creatively to make regular people freer from both federal government repression and heedless private interests.
And we ended on the more abstract topic of competing liberal worldviews: neoliberal vs. post-neoliberal. How incompatible are they? Is the Democratic Party doomed to division, or are Democrats’ divisions exacerbated by a system of government that makes change extremely difficult and rare?
It was a lively discussion, and I hope you’ll give it a listen or a watch. I’m confident you’ll enjoy it.
