@henryfarrell

I think of this as voice in the _very_ limited sense that money talks - it is a pretty explicit threat that if you take positions we don't like, you will find huge amounts of money being spent to defeat you. Less persuasion than palm-greasing and panic-mongering. You could see it as buying into the existing political system (in a literal sense) but classical liberals like e.g. Adam Smith were highly skeptical of the role of such power mongering (also more recently the late Mancur Olson, whose books I warmly recommend)

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