To the Ramparts — How Donor Politics Opened the Door to Trump
What happens when a political party becomes more responsive to its financial supporters than to its traditional voters?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using To the Ramparts: How Bush and Obama Paved the Way for the Trump Presidency, and Why It Isn’t Too Late to Reverse Course by Ralph Nader as the lens, this investigation examines the institutional conditions that Nader argues helped make Donald Trump’s rise possible.
Nader does not equate the Democratic and Republican parties. Instead, he argues that Democratic leaders gradually weakened…
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