Selling Out the Center: Campaign Finance and Political Polarization

Selling Out the Center: Campaign Finance and Political Polarization

Since the beginning of his term, President Trump has issued two executive orders extending the TikTok sale deadline and publicly proposed creating a sovereign wealth fund with the intention of buying the app. After years of attacking TikTok in his attempts to reduce Chinese economic power and influence in the United States, including championing a ban in the final year of his presidency, this move might at first seem to be a surprising reversal.…