Epstein Secrets

of the 2016 primary season) a small core of super-rich individuals was responsible for the record sums

ntration of fundraising power carries echoes of the end of the 19th century, when wealthy interests spent millions helping put former Ohio governor William McKinley in the White House. Inline image 3 Wealthy donors are giving record sums this cycle to super PACs, which can accept unlimited contributions from i

ows that too much concentration of wealth at the top, and too much stagnation everywhere else indicate an economy nearing collapse. For example, as Reich shows (Figure la & b), both the crashes of 1928 and 2007 followed on the heels of peaks in which the top i% owned 25% of the country's total wealth.

our society — are increasingly at odds with the policies the country desperately needs. Of course, money has always been part of American politics. William McKinley's political fixer, Mark Hanna, famously said, "There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money, and I can't remember what t

long held views and values of Dwight Eisenhower, Rich=rd Nixon, Jacob Javits, Clifford P. Case, Nelson

edman was from the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. W=en he founded National Review in 1955, William F. Buckley, Jr. was closer =n time to William McKinley than to Barack Obama. The particular synt=esis of free market economics, hawkish foreign policy and social reaction =hat defined movement conservati