I hate to stress a point, but Bush v Gore was 2000, and Bush elected two Supreme Court judges that would then go on to decide citizens United under a Bush appointed chief justice.

I don’t know if things definitely would’ve gone differently, but I imagine there would at least be different judges in place.

I’m happy to trace this issue back to the founding fathers, but Bush v Gore was the beginning of the end in my opinion.

Regan was awful, but how did Nixon get elected before that and so on? At a certain point there’s a direct line between compromises made during the drafting of the constitution and where we are today. I don’t know where we can realistically draw the line. They saw the problems back then, even warning against two party systems.

What happened with Sanders was just evidence of an already compromised system, and thinking about it now I don’t know that much would’ve been different. The Trump apparatus was already firmly in place.