Alex Aronson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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Again, we are up against a propaganda juggernaut and a base that really understands the importance of this.
And it reminds me a bit of the pretextual
justifications that FDR actually offered for his court backing threat, which were that the justices were too old and overworked and needed support, which the American people didn't buy and really was a threat that only worked because FDR had tremendous political power on his side.
He had 76 votes in the Senate, and we simply don't have that type of power.
And so what I would offer is that, and we haven't done the work to advance court reforms, even sort of good government, super defensible court reforms as a big priority for our base and for the Democratic Party.
And so the way we think about it is how can we advance this agenda in a way that brings more people along and that highlights just how obscene and out of control this system has gotten.
And where we think the place to start is with the corrupt, broken political system and with money in politics.
Citizens United and Buckley v. Vallejo, the 1976 case that decided that money was speech.
And that really opened the door for this broken political system that we're all inhabiting.
This is a very intentional design of the Federalist Society project and the Chamber of Commerce's Powell Memo.
And we've all sort of accepted that to deal with Citizens United, we have to overturn Citizens United by amending the Constitution.
Now, that is an impossibility.
They have broken the political system to foreclose our ability to do that.
And we have taken it as an acceptable answer for a democratic reformer, a pro-democracy, anti-corruption reformer, to say that they are against Citizens United and that they want to overturn Citizens United by amending the Constitution.
But people like Hakeem Jeffries, who make those promises, they know that those are promises they will never have to deliver because of the broken political system that they are now caught up in.
And so what if we just stop accepting that we have to take the Supreme Court's word as final, like Lincoln did?
And on a question like Citizens United, where every fact that they laid out in that case, supplanting Congress's bipartisan factual findings,
with their own assertions that independent expenditures could not be corrupting.
Everything about that decision is wrong.
Everything about the 16 now years since it was decided has proven that to 87% of the Americans that, in fact, independent expenditures in politics are deeply corrupting and create the appearance of corruption.
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