[templar]

"exploiting the loophole in campaign finance laws that lets billionaires donate however much they want to private political lobbies.

It isn't a 'loophole' in the law, as such. It's the way the law was deliberately written, passed, and intended. People who run things don't generally place restrictions on themselves.

[alloysteel]

Didn't FDR himself use the phrase, "malefactors of great wealth"? Of course, in those days, all holders of "great wealth" were invariably Republican. Not the "Bullmoose" Progressive Republicans as created almost singlehandedly by Uncle Teddy Roosevelt, but the Mark Hannah Republicans.

George Soros is as rapacious as the most conniving, cut-throat, totally self-absorbed "robber baron" that ever came out of the "Gilded Age" of transportation, steel and banking interests. And he made his money a great deal less honestly.