Democrats’ Corporate Corruption Divide

Democrats’ Corporate Corruption Divide Over the last half century, conservatives have executed a master plan that legalized corruption and bribery, transforming elections into auctions. The political question now is: Do voters see endemic corruption merely as an esoteric abstraction? Or do they see corruption as the central driver of their economic problems? Fifty years into this master plan, Democrats’ competing establishment and populist factions are offering two starkly different answers to these questions in high-profile primaries — and two lines from the party’s highest-profile swing-state Senate candidates illustrate the divide. On the establishment side, Michigan Senate candidate Rep. Haley Stevens summarized her faction’s view. Amid super PACs spending tens of millions of dollars trying to buy her race, Stevens is lashing out at her opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, for focusing so much of his campaign on a pledge to “get money out of politics.” Stevens has decided to culminate her primary campaign by asserting that corruption is not on voters’ minds, and insisting that corruption is an academic issue not really connected to the affordability crisis. Here’s an excerpt from Michigan Advance: This full story is for paid subscribers. Select Your Paid Subscription Already have an account? Sign in