The Trump administration’s cartoonish graft presents a unique opportunity for a populist anti-corruption platform. But for the Democrats to pull it off, they’d have to repudiate corruption within their own party first.

Jon Ossoff, the Democratic senator from Georgia, recently showed up on Pod Save America with an argument that may have irked the program’s die-hard Democratic audience. President Donald J. Trump, Ossoff said, is not the one and only major problem facing American politics. There is something else.

“Vast sums of corporate and billionaire money in our political system — with or without Trump — are why ordinary people are so ill served by elected officials and by Congress,” he said. “If we don’t solve this problem — even once we put Trump back in the box in the midterms and on

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