alt Hacker NewsThey have the warchest. They’ll buy the politicians. Look how the populist right has failed its primaries so hard.
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Cyph0n • today at 1:46 PM
The warchest is not enough: the NYC mayoral election and Michigan and Florida Senate (outfunded 16:1) primaries are good examples.
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iamnothere • today at 2:40 PM
Interestingly, the populist left is suddenly doing well this cycle, although I don’t know if that success will carry through to the general.
Could you elaborate? Specifically:
> Look how the populist right has failed its primaries so hard.
From my bubble (we’re all in bubbles), it seems that the populist right are in bed with the technocrat authoritarians, e.g. the Vance-Thiel connection. Losses in primaries would indicate to me that the technocrat authoritarians are not succeeding in purchasing politicians.