The shift to small- dollar fundraising in the 2020 Democratic nomination contest is not only a change in how campaigns operate. Campaigns that depended on small donors also shifted their rhetoric and behavior, flaunting their “outsider,” populist credentials and decrying politics as usual. The new power of small donors has the potential to be the greatest challenge to the control of party elites over the presidential nomination process since the reforms of the 1970s.

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小额捐款，影响巨大：小额捐款者如何侵蚀党内人士的力量

在2020年民主党提名竞赛中转向小额筹款活动，不仅是竞选活动方式的改变。依赖小捐助者的竞选活动也改变了他们的言论和行为，炫耀了他们的“局外人”，民粹主义资历，并一如既往地毁政治。自1970年代的改革以来，小额捐助者的新权力有可能成为对党内精英控制总统提名过程的最大挑战。