David Weigel
Premise of yesterday’s protests at yesterday’s DNC forum was that the party needs to reject “corporate” money and super PACs to be credible. But a few hours earlier we saw Kennedy, who benefited from a super PAC in 2024, lecture Sanders, who never had one, over taking small, disclosed donations from people in the pharmaceutical industry. At the risk of overthinking things — people don’t really know how campaign finance works, if you’re “clean” in one way your opponents can just attack you as corrupt some other way.