The big donors and party leaders have way more influence than you must think
@guimoyingji . It takes a
lot of money to run for president, and the only person to get anywhere near having a party nomination in recent memory without a lot of billionaire or corporate backers was Bernie Sanders.
Trump isn't a billionaire himself; he was bankrolled by the Mercer family.
Having a system where a small number of elites make big decisions is exactly how we got Trump as president. It looks like the Mercers are sitting the next election out, however
The reported loss of the Mercers — vital to Trump’s 2016 run — compounds campaign fears that the GOP’s big-ticket donors won’t show up in 2020.
nymag.com
'a former West Wing official told
Vanity Fair, while a former Renaissance executive added, “Bob views all his political spending as a bad investment.”'
It sounds like the previous election process of village head in rural China. In the past, in order to be elected as village head in rural China, the village head candidate had to get the villagers' votes. The candidate had to spend a lot of money to bribe the villagers and promise the villagers benefits. Then all the villagers voted at the villagers' Congress to decide who could be the village head.
However, this form has produced a lot of corruption and crime in the countryside, which has caused a very bad influence in China. For a while, the name "village head" was the synonym of evil officials in China, although in China, the village head was not the real official.
As a result of a large number of bad events, serious bad public opinions have been aroused in Chinese society. The Chinese government has decided to implement the performance appraisal policy for the village head. The chief responsibility of the village head is to lead the villagers to become rich and improve the living standards of the villagers. The term of office is three years. The villagers decide the ownership of the position of the village head. If a bad corruption event is caused, they will bear criminal responsibility.
Since then, the non official position of village head has become more subtle. When a small number of village heads attract investment, develop rich projects, and make their villagers rich, it has triggered a nationwide rural imitation. All farmers have begun to attach importance to the position of village head. For a better life, more and more college students have been elected village head, because they have more Knowledge, more young, more visionary, in China, there are many college student village leaders who have been promoted to county-level cadres and become principal officials because of their superiority in leading rural areas to become rich.
Now, the village head in rural China has become an important channel to become a formal official in China. As long as your achievements are outstanding and you can make the rural areas under your leadership rich, you will get a lot of superior appraisals and you can become a formal official in China.
The US presidential campaign is indeed similar to the Chinese village chief campaign, except that the US presidential campaign is larger and there is no performance appraisal mechanism.