Not only that, it didn’t clean up our elections. Opponents warned that by barring large individual and corporate contributions to political parties, “it would precipitate a tectonic shift of political power away from the parties and toward outside groups, which were likely to be far more extreme and far less accountable,” wrote Robert Kelner and Raymond La Raja in 2014 in The Washington Post. “The critics were correct.” It’s another way the foe of Trump facilitated the rise of Trump.