Opinion: 'If Democrats want to beat Trump, they should take money from everyone — even Louis C.K.' writes Carly Reilly for PostOpinions
from Bank of Oklahoma chair George Kaiser because he owns stakes in oil and gas businesses. To be clear: A contribution that’s worth a fraction of the cost of a campaign bus will not put Biden in the pocket of the oil industry, but ithelp his team cover one of their smaller campaign bills. In a presidential election that’s likely to be as expensive as this one, we must choose pragmatism over purity.
I don’t blame the Biden campaign in this dynamic. When I was the national finance director for Andrew Yang’s presidential campaign, I too had to return contributions from people deemed politically toxic by the team of professional vetters we used to scrutinize our money. Among the donations I had to refund were those from a friend and professional associate of a Russian American mobster and a former attorney for Trump confidant Rudolph W. Giuliani.
I would not have cared if Giuliani himself wanted to give us $2,800, and I certainly do not care if Biden takes $2,800 from Louis C.K. There is an experiment in the field of moral psychology where students are offered $2 to take a sip of juice into which a sterilized cockroach has been dipped. They are assured that no germs could live on the roach. Nevertheless, most students won’t do it. They can’t rationally explain it,Disgust is a powerful thing. Much more powerful, it turns out, than common sense.He
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