That’s like arguing that a businessman who for years pays excessively high corporate taxes under the prevailing tax codes, as President would advocate for higher corporate taxes.
Private citizens and corporations seeking to influence lawmakers through legal campaign contributions are not the evildoers. The evildoers are lawmakers who lie to and betray the voters who elected them in exchange for money.
And the Trump supporters are not the people being duped. The ones being duped are the voters who watch a candidate accept huge amounts of money from special interests and yet still expect them to keep their campaign promises.
“Private citizens and corporations seeking to influence lawmakers through legal campaign contributions are not the evildoers.”
Right. But if they do it with Cruz, he’s bought and paid for. If Trump does it with a politician, they aren’t bought and paid for by him.
Up is down and down is up.