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If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We're averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward off these seven- or eight-figure checks on the other side. That disparity is pretty striking, and so are the implications. In many ways, we're back in the Gilded Age. We have robber barons buying the government.

David Axelrod

If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We're averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward off these seven- or eight-figure checks on the other side. That disparity is pretty striking, and so are the implications. In many ways, we're back in the Gilded Age. We have robber barons buying the government.

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About David Axelrod

David Axelrod may refer to:

David Axelrod (musician) (1931–2017), American composer, arranger and producer
David Axelrod (political consultant), (born 1955) senior advisor to former U.S. President Barack Obama.
David Jason Axelrod Ha'ivri (born 1967), an Israeli settler, political activist
David Axelrod (physician) (1935–1994), a medical doctor and New York State Commissioner of Health in the 1980s and 1990s; drafted the Libby Zion Law