The Role of the Party Apparatus in the Trump Story

The barrier to entry to running for president is very, very low these days. I think that maybe we're at this turning point where the impressive resume just doesn't matter anymore in the age of mass media. Vivek Ramaswami went to war with the RNC and said, look, I'm not going to sign your damn loyalty pledge if you're not more transparent about how these debate rules are going to come about. And they were powerless because their qualification for that debate was he need 40,000 unique donors? He went and got 40,000 really small unique donors and he's there. The only person who didn't show up was Chris Christie. But they have flexed their