Alex Wagner
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the government, then it's going to be a hell of a lot harder to do those things.
And so I think restoring that trust is incredibly important.
And getting that money out of our politics is incredibly important for the economy as well, because people understand... Can every Iowa voter explain the difference between a 527 or a C4?
No, of course not.
But do people understand that there is a direct connection between how
rigged the economy is and how corrupted our politics have become by these super PACs and billionaires and dark money.
Like, yeah, absolutely.
Everybody gets that.
You know, Donald Trump was not wrong when he said that we need to drain the swamp.
The problem is that he's not draining the swamp at all.
If anything, he's like floating in it.
Just building in these swamps.
Totally.
Totally.
Like Pete Hegsath in there and a bunch of other douchebags.
I mean, look, so first of all, there was no federal independent expenditure of that organization at all.
So it's a complete apples and oranges situation.
But I would tell you, I think like a lot of young voters of our generation, I'm going to say our generation here, I think that concern about money and politics has been something that we've seen for a long time.
And part of that, I think, is growing up in the post-Citizens United era, going back to 2010.