EP 919 Campaign Funding Keeps Changing the Political Landscape

 Brody Mullins, and his brother, Luke, wrote the much heralded “The Wolves of K Street”, about how the last fifty years of corporate influence in Washington had shifted Washington D.C.’s center of power from elected officials to extravagantly paid operators, using a new bag of tricks, who bent public policy in favor of corporate interests.  That book came out in 2024.  And already, according to Brody, the game is changing again.  Starting in 2016, corporate PAC money has been declining as a share of campaign finance dollars in favor of Super PAC money. At the same time Trump’s law, in politics, speeding up the process of change in that realm has echoes of Moore’s law in defining the pace of technological change. The pace of what’s happening in Washington D.C. can be dizzying and the way it all lands uncertain. In this podcast, we do our best to walk you through the fast -changing landscape, explain the terms of campaign finance and its implications for our politics.

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