Lisa McCormick is loading live rounds and firing directly at Senator Cory Booker, and she’s not using the polite, donor-approved language of Washington.
The anti-establishment Democrat who took two of every five ballots cast away from disgraced former US Senator Bob Menendez in 2018, says Booker is only play-acting as New Jersey’s champion while quietly pocketing campaign checks from dozens of billionaires whose priorities have nothing to do with the lives of ordinary people in this state.
The numbers, she says, tell a brutal story of a grandstanding politician who talks like a fighter but delivers like a placeholder.
“Since Booker arrived in the Senate, women have lost the constitutional right to control their own bodies,” said McCormick. “The Voting Rights Act has been gutted like a fish left to rot in the sun. Mass shootings have tripled. Carbon dioxide levels have blasted past 427 parts per million, making ‘climate disaster’ sound like an understatement.”
“New Jersey’s middle class has shrunk by three percent, $29 trillion has been siphoned from the paychecks of American workers into the vaults of the ultra-rich, and Booker has skipped 413 votes — nearly one in ten,” said McCormick.
McCormick says it’s no accident.
For fifty years, she argues, the richest one percent have been running a quiet, relentless class war against working people — a fight that’s been won in boardrooms, on Capitol Hill, and in the permanent backroom auction that American politics has become.
Since 1975, she says, $88 trillion in earnings have been stripped from the working class and redistributed upward to the wealthy.
Today, the richest ten percent control 69 percent of the nation’s wealth, while the bottom half fights over the remaining three percent.
“We have less income to live on and we pay more of it in taxes,” McCormick says, “and the oligarchs have turned our elections into bidding wars. Whoever pays the most gets the most — and the rest of us are left with scraps.”
Booker, she says, has chosen a side.
“If he’s not pretending, then he needs to explain why he has lost every battle against incompetent Trump Republicans,” McCormick says.
To her, Booker’s brand of politics is a costume drama for the donor class — speeches and social media posts designed to give the illusion of a struggle while the scoreboard shows a rout.
The billionaires funding him, McCormick warns, aren’t paying for victory on behalf of New Jersey families — they’re investing in someone who will keep the machine humming.
And in that arrangement, the winners are already picked before the race begins.