Funding, although that is becoming less effective at the moment. Establishment candidates get many times the funds for tv ad campaigns and similar things that get their name out there, and they used to lie really well in those ads, so it worked. Still helps, but it’s fading as people stop believing in their lies.

How did you write this? Are you a wizard?

A disappointment equivalent to Piefed.

Air force and navy.

I think the point is oligarch bad.

Exactly. Helping organise a genocide in Myanmar, sure, that’s bad, but on the other hand, money!