Will democracy survive the tsunami of right-wing dark money coming this fall?

Get ready. Massive pools of dark right-wing money are soon going to clobber us.

Well democracy survived this onslaught by the morbidly rich?

Democrats are giddy right now. The substantial lead that Trump has held over

Biden for months has largely vanished as the matchup has changed to

Harrison walls. In the ten polls aggregated by real clear politics since

Biden's withdrawal Trump has lost three points and only leads by one. In the

Daily Coast Civics poll Harris leads Trump

49 to 45 Reuters puts a race at 4342 and Morning Consult has it at 47 46.

Trump is blustering in ways that indicate he thinks he's losing.

Yesterday's Presser at his golf motel was particularly pathetic.

While J.D. Vance's poll numbers are in the

toilet or the couch and showing no indication of recovery any day soon.

That said other lessons from this in recent past years should keep Democrats from easing up or becoming overconfident.

The official beginning of the election season is still almost a month away and the big money pledged by right-wing

and neo-fascist billionaires hasn't even shown up yet.

While over a hundred million pissed off women and the widespread concern that Trump and the

GOP are determined to destroy the American system of government seem like a powerful force. History tells us

dark money could overcome even those substantial tailwinds. We saw this played out

here in Portland just last month. Sushlla Jayapol, sister Prumillo

was a well thought of and successful Oregon politician

on the board of the metro government

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