Before you go off on your “all knowing analysis” that money is the only winner, maybe the name and campaign of David Brat against the sitting Republican Majority Leader Eric Canton just might blow a hole the size of the Gulf of Mexico into your hypothesis. His was the shot across the bow of the establishment that message and conviction to it is the winner. Wise men did not discount this and will be the eventual winners, not the bloated, big money establishment pukes.
Brat isn’t a good example of philosophy/message over $$$. How many other under-financed primary candidates succeeded in taking out powerful incumbents? Somehow, McConnell/Boehner/Roberts, et al. managed to win. Again.