It looks like the main effect of CFR was to shut grass roots organizations of ordinary Americans out, while doing nothing to billionaires.
What's even more interesting is that, more and more, the Democrats are becoming the party of the super wealthy, the academic elites and their serfs, illegal immigrants and labor unions, while the Republicans are becoming the party of ordinary Americans.
Any objection to adding the professional bureaucracy to that list? I'm willing to bet that, as a group, they tend to be Democratic and liberal, and they are a considerable constituency in terms of utility.