![]() ![]() ![]() The first signs, as she identifies them, took place during the 1930s when some wealthy families took umbrage at being accused of causing the financial panic and conservative groups chanted against the Roosevelts in an eerie foreshadow of the 2016 election rallies. Mayer identifies the earliest ferment of “the second gilded age” during a time when there was relative economic equality. ![]() ![]() Published in 2016, Dark Money examines the deep roots that sprouted the present political environment. In fact, thanks to the reporting of Jane Mayer, among others, acknowledging PACs and other forms of Dark Money in the political discourse has become accepted practically to the point of banality.īut, as Mayer makes clear, the explosion of Dark Money after Citizens United was the culmination of a process, not a new innovation. The normalization of over-the-top spending in political elections has gone hand-in-hand with the changes, particularly in the aftermath of the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision. The evolution, or, as some would call it, the metastatic mutation, of the Republican party is one of the most unescapable facts of US politics in recent memory. ![]()
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