> he had more money than virtually the rest of the field put together and had name recognition

Money doesn’t buy elections. Someone gets shocked about this every cycle when the overwhelmingly-funded toast sandwich lands with a thud.

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uoaei 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Your statement is one of those "not even wrong" pedantic ploys that falls apart at the lightest sneeze in its direction.

Money is the only way to exert pressure on society and narratives. If you think that has no effect on elections then you are about as antisocial and antipatriotic a person as I can imagine.

	▲	JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Money is the only way to exert pressure on society and narratives It’s not. Every piece of state and federal legislation I personally wrote language into passed before I was wealthy. Showing up is incredibly hard for a lot of people. Being decent and eloquent when you do is impossible for the rest. I’ve donated to get power and gotten involved. The latter absolutely smites the former, to the point that donors are almost being taken for a ride outside a few idiot candidates who unfailingly lose.