Democrats change how they run campaigns to prove their progressive values
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The focus on campaigns also coincides with a rise of progressive activism in the party, one that treats the existing political system as fundamentally corrupt and broken. Facing a skeptical electorate, candidates are eager to use their campaigns to demonstrate that they won't operate like the detested status quo.
Meanwhile, Julian Castro, the former housing secretary, has pledged to pay interns $15 an hour to do his part in bringing all kinds of people into politics, not just those who can afford to work for free. And Inslee, running primarily on a message of climate change, has refused donations tied to fossil fuel.Candidates are looking to prove their purity against President Donald Trump, whose alleged ethical lapses and business conflicts are a source of outrage to his critics.
O'Rourke talks about the power of this style of campaigning constantly on the stump, more than he talks about any specific policy, seeing the campaign as an end unto itself as much as it is a means to winning the White House.
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