Here’s a speech by Democratic campaign lawyer Robert Bauer on just how bad campaign-finance reform is for progressives.

A quick sample:

More than anything else, progressives have to depend on politics — energetic and uninhibited politics — to advance their program. This is where a campaign finance reform supporter heads down the wrong path. The campaign finance reform supporter assumes that entrenched power, possessing the lion’s share of the resources, will have an insurmountable advantage that may be overcome only with legal controls. So we have detailed regulation of the rules of politics in the name of “political equality,” which, it is assumed, will give the “average citizen” a fighting chance.

This is delusional, on several grounds.

Well worth reading, as is everything Bauer writes, for both Democrats and Republicans.