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There’s nothing new about politicians using the public’s own money to buy their votes. Sometimes it’s so comically obvious that it’s worth asking the question: Why control political fundraising so carefully if the party in power can spend unlimited amounts to woo voters?
Donald Trump understood the game when he fought to have his signature affixed to the hundreds of millions of cheques the U.S. government was doling out during the pandemic.
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