Or the legions of well connected “political advisors (usually lawyers)” who move from one top level (appointed) government job to Beltway Legal/PR firm job to appointed government job and back. Thy all protect & look out for each other, it doesn’t matter the administration.
Yes, that is part of the payoff to keep the whole crony capitalist enterprise going. But who are the big beneficiaries. In health care who are the Soroses, Rockefellers, Rothschild’s.