I scoured articles trying to understand this, too! Is it simply the intersection of money/free volunteer labor and politics where money just wins? On the other

I scoured articles trying to understand this, too! Is it simply the intersection of money/free volunteer labor and politics where money just wins? On the other hand we have something similar in the USA so who am I to judge? :) One party in our two party system appears to have lots of Russian connections now for some reason, and this does not bother most of their supporters which has approximately 45-50 percent of the population behind it. In past years this would have led to claims about treason or something similar from the same party, the path from Nixon to now it appears the only change has been how public the cooperation between the GOP leadership and countries openly antagonistic to the USA, i.e. Nixon/Kissinger with North Vietnam, Reagan/Bush with Iran and Trump with Russia.