Friday, February 02, 2018

Just How Did Trump Win? Money, Dark Money

How Did Trump Win? Follow the Dark Money 

by TRNN


February 1, 2018

A major new study says a last-minute infusion of "dark money," coupled with declining unionization rates, were among the key factors that handed Donald Trump the biggest upset in US political history. We speak to co-author Thomas Ferguson of the University of Massachusetts.



Thomas Ferguson is a political scientist and author who studies and writes on politics and economics, often within an historical perspective. He is a Political Science professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is also a a contributing editor of The Nation. He is also the author of several books, the recent of which is Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political System


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