Speical intersts capture of Republicans not new

The threat posed to our democracy by legislators being co-opted by powerful interests, such as Insurance Companies control of healthcare, was warned of as far back as the Founding Fathers. As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 1 "Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected."