NATION
Effective Republican Attorneys General Get Slapped With Politicized Ethics Charges
Donald Trump, House Leadership Explode Over the Border Bil
‘I Was Scared’: Ex-Therapist Says Hospital Required Her To Misdiagnose Troubled Teens As Trans
Florida grand jury investigating COVID-19 vaccines releases first report (Mainstreamish)
From The Frontline Of Massachusetts’ Descent Into The Third World
The Truth about Campaign Donations
Anticapitalists repeatedly claim that the rich have a decisive influence on politics and the outcome of elections, primarily through donations. This theory has always been wrong and the amount of donations will in all likelihood not be decisive for the election in 2024 either.
If money alone bought political power, Donald Trump would never have become the Republican candidate for the U.S. presidency in 2016. That honor would more likely have gone to Jeb Bush, who was able to raise far more in political donations. Even Benjamin I. Page and Martin Gilens, political scientists and two of the most prominent proponents of the thesis that U.S. politics is determined by the rich, concede that “most of the big-money contributors — and most Republican think-tankers and officeholders — supported other candidates.” And: “Trump’s positions went directly contrary to the views of wealthy donors and wealthy Americans generally.”
Furthermore, if money determined political outcomes, Trump would not have won the 2016 election. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton would have, as Page and Gilens themselves recognize: “The better-funded candidate sometimes loses, as Hillary Clinton herself did.” Clinton and her allies, including her joint committees with the Democratic Party and the super PACs that supported her, raised more than $1.2 billion for the full cycle, according to the Federal Election Commission. Trump and his allies collected about $600 million. Moreover, not one CEO in the Fortune 100 donated to Trump’s election campaign by September 2016. His victory did not stem from influence by the wealthy but more from grassroots opposition to wealthy coastal elites.School Choice Keeps Spreading
WORLD
Death toll of Palestinians in Gaza rises to 27,478:
Portugal Farmers Join EU Protests (YT)
Which Anti-Drone Rifles Does Russia Have?
Which dogs live the longest? Small ones with long noses
HEMISPHERE
Chile forest fires: Hundreds of people missing as death toll reaches 122
Bitcoin City Project Thrives as El Salvador’s New President Embraces the Vision
Brokers: Lynchpins of the Precursor Chemical Flow to Mexico
HEALTH
MACRO
Interest on the National Debt—Who Does It Go To?
Fiscal Rules Do Not Undermine Investment, But Government Profligacy Does
MICRO
Moves By Ford and Hertz Prove EVs Are Still the ‘Next Big Thing’
Popular “all-American” Companies That Are Now Internationally-Owned
WORTH ANOTHER LOOK
Is the Ford F-150 Partially Responsible For the Retirement Crisis?
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