Oct 9, 2022
5 min read
Don’t Blame Our Toxic Politics on Online Fundraising
Not all elected officials who are powered by small donors are populist demagogues.
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…
