As a Brazilian, I'm here to tell you: that's how it starts. If this isn't curbed, you'll have a presidential candidate thoroughly linked with them in ~20 years
This has been happening in the US for more than a century now. I'm not saying that it shouldn't be stopped but our government system is pretty well designed to prevent things like this from rolling up to a national level.
The bigger call out is that people who are trying to vest more power in the federal government should look at stories like this and realize that it's a bad idea.
The bigger call out is that people who are trying to vest more power in the federal government should look at stories like this and realize that it's a bad idea.