evidence: I’m supposed to be flattered, I guess, that these bigwigs are taking time to write to me personally, relying on the use of first names to sound chummy. "Adam suggested I get in touch with you," wrote Stacey Abrams, when she was running for governor. "Nick, I’m disgusted," wrote Pelosi. "I wanted to tell you personally." [...] And why should that bother me? I’m generally sympathetic to Democrats. I know they need money to win their races. [...] It’s a bad, broken, corrupt system in which money plays far too big a role.