Don’t Blame Our Toxic Politics on Online Fundraising
Not all elected officials who are powered by small donors are populist demagogues.
5 min readOct 9, 2022
If money is the mother’s milk of politics, then the Internet is every politician’s best friend. In 2000, which was arguably the last pre-Internet election, just 777,000 people — one-quarter of one percent of all adult Americans — gave $200…