Well the story to me is basically: money plays a gigantic factor and allows you to win elections, because it gives you exposure. You can beat that moneyed syst

Well the story to me is basically: money plays a gigantic factor and allows you to win elections, because it gives you exposure. You can beat that moneyed system if you happen to be an eccentric billionaire, who happens to have been a household name for decades, who will say anything, racist, misogynistic, hateful, lies and false promises, to get the exposure to get elected despite not paying for it. Just about anything else and you need money to get exposure, get on television, get yourself in the spotlight. He just didn't happen to have needed money to get exposure, but that's an exception, in exceptional circumstances, and limits potential candidates to those with exceptional media/wealth backgrounds. That's not a model that makes sense to sustain.