Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

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Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

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I have shown so many people this film, and it has never failed to bring the house down

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Me, a Gen Xer, taking a long drag on a cigarette: yeah I learned about Benjamin Franklin’s reputation as a notorious womanizer from a children’s book where he was BFFs with a talking mouse

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"The nation that separates its surgeons from its warriors will have its top surgeries done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." -totally unedited quote from Thucydides

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