Thread by @danielmarans

New: Attacks from billionaires have helped populist Democrats, rather than hurt them, but the superrich are going to keep trying. huffpost.com/entry/billiona… via @HuffPostPol

@HuffPostPol .@TammyMoralesSEA told me that Jeff Bezos going all in against her, @cmkshama and others, helped unify the left in Seattle.

"There was a clear rejection of the narrative coming out of the Chamber."

@HuffPostPol @TammyMoralesSEA @cmkshama Bezos turned a race due to be about homelessness-- unfriendly turf for the left-- into one about $ in politics.

@lauraloeseattle
: “There are people who would never vote for a socialist, but they said, ‘There was no way I was going to vote for somebody backed by Amazon money.'"

@HuffPostPol @TammyMoralesSEA @cmkshama @LauraLoeSeattle That pattern appears to be repeating itself in the Democratic presidential primary where even Yang and Buttigieg are, to varying degrees, beating up on Big Tech.

When rich guys bash Warren on TV, one strategist told me, "it’s like a massive in-kind donation to Warren’s campaign"

@HuffPostPol @TammyMoralesSEA @cmkshama @LauraLoeSeattle Very wealthy people just don't get how they're perceived by broader public, according to @JosephNSanberg.

“It’s hard to bring someone out of a narrow perspective just by telling them. You have to get them out of their echo chamber.”

@HuffPostPol @TammyMoralesSEA @cmkshama @LauraLoeSeattle @JosephNSanberg One reason the rich will keep trying is that rather than a mere election, their very status in the Democratic Party is at risk.

@glgerstle “These two wings have existed pretty comfortably, and that comfort is being exposed as extremely uncomfortable..."