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# "AI Is the Democratic Party's Next Villain"

**Source:** Unknown  
**Published:** July 8, 2026  
**Original:** https://reason.com/volokh/2026/07/08/ai-is-the-democratic-partys-next-villain/  

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- [Overview](#overview)

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## Overview

"We analyze roughly 280,000 candidate fundraising emails to trace the rise of anti-billionaire populism in the Democratic party and see how it is slowly merging with a new kind of anti-AI populism."

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