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And Reid Hoffman donates $7 million to Kamala Harris's campaign.
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And then spends a huge part of her very truncated campaign hectoring her to fire Lena Kahn.
Now, the relevance of that, a lot of people might say, what's that got to do with anything?
Lena Kahn was the head of the FTC, and the FTC was kind of the tip on the spear of whatever was getting done in a Democratic administration to bring down costs.
She was the one who was fighting the fight to get click to cancel.
She was the one who was fighting the fight to get rid of the non-compete clauses.
She was the one breaking up the giant corporations.
She was the one carrying forward that agenda and really giving us proof points that there were things that could be done and Democrats weren't out there fighting for them.
And what's Reid Hoffman doing?
He's saying, if you want to be my candidate, you've got to promise to fire her.
Now, look, at the end of the day, to her credit, Kamala Harris did not fire or promise to fire Lena Kahn if she was elected.
On the other hand, she didn't promise not to fire Lena Kahn if she was elected.
And furthermore, Harris does this whole agenda, rightly, about prices, price gouging, and the corporatists come in and get her to narrow that agenda down.
This is according to a story in the New York Times.
That story runs on the front page of the New York Times.
It becomes a story all across the country.
just a few weeks before the election, at literally the same time that Donald Trump is still out there saying, I will lower costs on day one.
So to me, this is the perfect setup about what is it as Democrats we want to do going forward?
Do we want to say as Democrats, sure, we're for lowering costs, but let's just nibble around the edges, right?