Campaign finance reform was a scam. The Pew Charitable Trusts faked a movement. Here is the video from one of its architects, explaining how he did that, after the fact. It’s also a remarkable manual to effective lobbying, and easier in the age of AI than ever.
“We had to take unaccountable Money from the system…”
And the way to do it was…with unaccountable money. Goodish news: it worked!