In his “kiss and make up” column in Saturday?s newspaper, UW-Madison professor Kenneth R. Mayer advises Democrats to “stop blaming the American Legislative Exchange Council, or Super PACS, or the Koch Brothers, or Citizens United. Stop insisting that the only reason you lost was you were outspent 3-to-1, or 5-to-1, or 10-to-1 …”This is such an overly casual dismissal of deep problems with American democracy that I am shocked to hear it from a political scientist.
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