Planned Parenthood and the Human Rights Campaign didn’t endorse Clinton. They didn’t endorse anyone. They can’t. They are 501(c)(3) organizations — non-profits. Their PACs, which are 501(c)(4) organizations, did the endorsing. They are affiliated, but they are not the same organizations. This might seem like a very fine point to make, but there are good reasons that non-profits are prohibited from endorsing political candidates. So, the organizations that Sanders was attacking were not the organizations that do all that good work. They are lobbyists. It is, I think, perfectly fair and legitimate to call lobbyists part of the political establishment. Pushing back on that claim by invoking all the good work done by those associated non-profits (who, again, *cannot* endorse, except apparently by proxy) feels wrongheaded.

Everyone knows that money in politics is largely a necessary evil. Anyone who gets elected takes money from PACs. I’m not going to say that there isn’t anything wrong with that, but I think it’s missing the point of the money argument against Clinton. Taking money from PACs is one thing. Taking money from Wall Street PACs, joining an administration that took money from Wall Street PACs, bailing out *that same industry* with public tax-payer money, leaving the administration, accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars at speaking engagements for *that same industry* which go into your own private bank account, then running again on money from Wall Street PACs is…something else. I don’t even know what that is. But I don’t think you get to say that you never gave anyone anything in exchange for contributions.