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> You’re also discounting the impact small-dollar donors have had in American politics as of late and the public primary system. Yes, we all saw it. It's a ver
by M95D 1y ago
> You’re also discounting the impact small-dollar donors have had in American politics as of late and the public primary system.
Yes, we all saw it. It's a very small impact and it attracts the opposition of every big-dollar donors. Bernie Sanders proved it.
- SllX 1y agoSmall-dollar donors had an outsized impact outside of just Sanders and others on the left, and helped, just as two examples on the right: Donald J. Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene. The massive infusion of cash from small-dollar donors and politicians playing to their base on TV to boost their fundraising is doing far more to undermine both the Democratic and Republican parties than large donors ever have.