Amid ongoing investigations
into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, a new paper by INET Research
Director Tom Ferguson, together with Paul Jorgensen and Jie Chen, provides an
alternative explanation of Trump’s win: a surge of cash. Late infusions of big
money from private equity, casinos, and other far-right contributors; a
remarkable wave of donations from small donors; and substantial infusions from
the candidate himself proved crucial to Trump’s victory, the paper finds. The
original research illuminates a neglected yet crucial narrative of Trump’s
rise.
It wasn’t Comey or the Russians. Trump prevailed because his campaign carefully targeted key states with late infusions of big money from private equity, casinos, and other far right contributors, a remarkable wave of donations from small donors, and substantial infusions from the candidate himself.
New Economic Perspectives
Tom Ferguson - How Money Won Trump the White House
11 comments:
It wasn't Comey, the Russians, or money - it was Hillary that won Trump the White House.
Hillary outspent Trump 2:1.
Vice
Dark Money, Not Russia, May Be the Best Way to Explain Trump's Win
Oh, and the crippling inequality overseen by elites from both parties that has nothing to do with collusion, Robert Mueller, or Moscow.
Matt Taylor
INET
Industrial Structure and Party Competition in an Age of Hunger Games: Donald Trump and the 2016 Presidential Election
Thomas Ferguson, Paul Jorgensen, and Jie Chen
“Hillary outspent Trump 2:1.”
Right which disproves the whole premise of this BS article.... Kaivey giving oxygen to Soros via INET here...
“crippling inequality”
Tom this is just getting started... it’s going way higher...
"Hillary outspent Trump 2:1."
Does this include the billions in free media that Trump got? Because if it doesn't, then Trump "outspent," bigly, Hillary.
The summer of 2016 I was in Greece in a small village about 15kms south of the city of Sparta. You'd think that more important things would occupy the villagers' minds, but no -- hardly a day went by when I was not asked about Trump. Even had a Greek peasant tell me, with total confidence of course, that Trump was going to win. I kindly informed him that there was no way in Hades that this was going to happen. He replied, "No,no, he's going to win. He's everywhere!" ... Today, I refer to this Greek peasant as the "Oracle of Sparta." ;)
"Fuck Soros!"
By definition, all billionaires are sociopaths. So ...
"Fuck billionaires!"
They are, and something needs to be done about it. We can't have the ' rule of Rome' in the nuclear age.
Kaivey INET is a Soros think tank...
Thanks, Matt, now I see.
I was in their mailing list and I must have liked something they put out some time back to subscribe. I have now unsubscribed.
"Does this include the billions in free media that Trump got?"
Courtesy of Hillary, who "encouraged" corporate media to promote the three most despicable REPs - Cruz, Carson and Trump - as a way to assure her "victory".
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