For over 40 years, The Leadership Institute, founded in 1979 by Morton Blackwell, has taught conservatives how to win. It’s Youth Leadership School, Future Candidate School and other grassroots trainings are considered the gold standard for conservatives engaged in local and national politics.

Chris and Sean zoom with Robert Arnakis, Senior Director of International and Domestic Programs at LI, to discuss LI’s vast influence on the Conservative Movement, his 18 years equipping leaders to know how to win; and, the current haphazard state of the Republican Party.

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