David Frum

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David Frum @davidfrum

Drury reported on the Senate, he was not a naif of any kind. And to be clear, his world is not better than ours. A South Carolina senator at one point explains why politics in his state is cheap. "All we have to spend our money on is corn liquor and lynching bees." — PolitiTweet.org

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I am listening to the 33-hour audiobook of Allen Drury's famous 1950s bestseller "Advise and Consent" - and in all that time, not a single senator ever thinks or talks about fundraising. — PolitiTweet.org

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But it was a different world, and a striking difference is the absence of money as an independent political force - despite the almost total lack in those days of legal restrictions on money in politics. — PolitiTweet.org

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