we re 50 years after the march on washington. people remember that great march. they don t often think about what it takes financially to pull together not just a march, a protest but a social movement. is there something from the right we should learn about how the resources get deployed to make protests effective. i don t know if it s a question of learning from the right per se but we want to push back on the idea that movements ought to be contingent on wealth and power and access pt right now this ought to concern anyone who cares about democracy, small d democrats. we have a country we re told we want more money in the elections but fewer voters. we want restrictions to make it harder to vote but easier to finance an election. to me that is a complete inversion of what we ought to be pushing for. i would hope people of goodwill on the left, the right, somewhere in between that would be able to recognize that s a fundamentally disempowering thing for people. it ought not be cont