DiogenesLamp:
"They were doing that before Teddy Roosevelt.
Roosevelt was the first one to stop tolerating this behind the scenes "deep state" collusion between private corporations and Government. " Again, I refer you to the 1860 Republican Party platform, item #6:
- "That the people justly view with alarm the reckless extravagance which pervades every department of the Federal Government;
- that a return to rigid economy and accountability is indispensable to arrest the systematic plunder of the public treasury by favored partisans;
- while the recent startling developments of frauds and corruptions at the Federal metropolis, show that an entire change of administration is imperatively demanded. "
By 1860 Democrats had been in charge of Washington, DC, almost continuously since the election of 1800.