The Campaign Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Friday, March 1, 2019

“The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC is one of its most unpopular in history. It is also one of the most misunderstood. Critics tend to see in Citizens United a cliff-jump into an abyss of unlimited political money, a descent that was well underway sometime before. In reality, the case represented a turning point in a different sense: It sounded the death knell for traditional, television-based campaigning and presaged a world of unregulated and unregulatable online political communication.”