“Dark money for me, but not for thee” appears to be his motto.
“Cut-outs, front groups, false narratives, hidden funding. It has the tradecraft of a covert op.” So says Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of both the Budget Committee and the It’s Always Sunny Meme Committee, of his rivals’ political support.
Whitehouse’s conspiracy theorizing, recently expanded into a book-length diatribe The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court, targets most frequently the American energy industry—an industry he calls a “bullying menace” that “call(s) the shots” in Washington.
In The Scheme, Whitehouse puts “the dark arts of climate denial” front and center. In chapter 1 he conjures “a lurking climate denial apparatus, funded with anonymous money,” that has “shifted into high gear.” The Senator has continued to beat the drum on Capitol Hill in 2023 with an ongoing series of floor speeches — we’re up to speech number twenty now — restating his case.
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Jordan McGillis is a Paulson Policy Analyst at the Manhattan Institute
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