A solution to this problem is to openly acknowledge it and work to fix it, be that through overturning Citizens United legislatively, through Constitutional amendment (unlikely), or through expanding the Court so the decision can be re-litigated.
There are few issues that animate American voters more than corruption in politics. It's so powerful that it's already affecting Democratic voters' perception of a few on our side.
Young people know, for example, that climate action is stalled by every Republican in the Senate and Joe Manchin making piles of cash from his coal business and being the largest Democratic recipient of fossil fuel money.
Minimum wage workers and people on Medicare know that every Republican in the Senate was helped by Kirsten Sinema, who shot down their hoped-for raise and regulation of drug prices because of the big bucks she got from the same billionaires and industries that fund the GOP.
If the Democratic Party wants to win this fall and in 2024 in a big way, their best bet is to fully oppose corruption in all its forms. And then, unlike the Trumpy Republicans or Jail Bolsonaro, to walk the talk when they govern.
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