For 2020 Dems, Dark Money Is Taboo -- and Much Needed

Pete Buttigieg, who has rapidly hurtled from obscurity in the Midwest to national prominence, is frustrated.

"We've allowed our conservative friends to get a monopoly on the idea of freedom," the mayor of South Bend, Ind., told voters in South Carolina earlier this month. Republicans talk in terms of freedom from government. Democrats, the upstart presidential candidate argued, should talk in terms of freedom to access government-guaranteed rights like abortion and gay marriage.