Progressive Pressure Over the Budget Reconciliation Bill Is Creating Establishment Pushback

From Progressive Pressure Over the Budget Reconciliation Bill Is Creating Establishment Pushback:

It seems that a prerequisite for a TV anchor job or a Beltway reporting gig at a corporate media outlet is an ironclad commitment to standing in the shadow of a Mount Everest–sized pile of corporate campaign cash, and insisting with a straight face that politics is just a battle of ideas between earnest statesmen presenting different visions for the country’s future.

Jacobin follows the money. You should too.

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