The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy—in One Chart

Here’s the chart. Context from WaPo:

“The hypocrisy is stunning,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), an outspoken opponent of the constitutional amendment, said in an interview Friday. “Senate Democrats have long been funded by a group of billionaires bent on maintaining their power, yet they pretend to be outraged” by the spending of the Koch brothers and their allies.

In advance of Monday’s floor debate, Senate Republican staffers circulated a chart showing the reach of Democracy Alliance, with the donor group represented as a circle surrounded by seven concentric rings of smaller circles, one for each of the roughly 170 organizations supported by its members. Among them are advocacy groups such as Common Cause, Public Citizen and People for the American Way, which have been at the forefront of efforts to restrict the influence of wealthy interests on politics.

“I think it’s important that people understand — whatever the Kochs and our network may be accused of or said to be doing — that the other side is doing much more of it, and has been doing it for a much longer time,” Holden said.

“A lot of these groups that the Democracy Alliance funds don’t disclose their donors, which is their right, and I’m supportive of that, but then they turn around and attack us, claiming that the groups we support are dark money groups, because they don’t disclose their donors,” Holden added. “So it seems dishonest and the height of hypocrisy.”

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