It's revealed that the candidate has some pretty nasty secrets, and the voters - some of them anyway - get reluctant to stay with him. But the money guys know they can get 25 or 30 percent of those voters to swallow any little piece of shit that floats by as long as their favorite "news" readers and commentators say they should.
note: Let's be real clear - the GOP knew about all this shit way before CNN broke it. There's no way this comes as big surprise. So I have to suspect that Robinson's backers figured they could use it as leverage.
So the monied interests "take a second look", but instead of deciding not to back a slug like that guy, they stay in their default transactional mode, and figure, "We got him to commit to supporting our shitty harmful business model in exchange for the money we've already spent, so what more can we get from him now that the election calculus is changing?"
The money says, "we're pulling our support".
Robinson says, "what'll it take to get you back on board?" And then he proceeds to sweeten the pot.
Deregulation is the prize - full on unfettered private enterprise in the ultimate goal.
Robinson was spouting all kinds of crazy shit before. I suspect he'll double down again, which I think means he's made his deal.
And the big money sees a chance to win by losing. Robinson may be going down in flames, but the authoritarians can look forward to him doing further damage to a free press, which they'll continue to use as a tool to tear down democracy.
BTW - dark money is called dark money because the "donors" don't have to show themselves.
They can cluck their tongues and make a public show of withdrawing, but there's nothing that says they can't just go underground with it.
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