They generally don’t pay presidents directly at all. They pay the DNC and the PACs.

And no - they didn’t pay for tax increases. They paid for loopholes.

The article sort of brushes up against the truth here and there, but to borrow a phrase from it, apparently doesn’t have the cojones to actually lay it out clearly.

The Dem leadership isn’t timid - they’re corrupt. They’re wholly owned by moneyed interests and have no desire to be anything else. They’re not fighting the oligarchs simply because the oligarchs pay them to not fight.