Probably overshadowed by Republicans in the fundraising sector ecstatic at the scale of money they'll be able to skim. Parties don't really lose anything when the lose. They are back in power in 10 years, and they make money in the meantime. And isn't making money the bigger picture? Both parties do this.

The result is that voting does very little to persuade the parties to serve us over their doaners. If they do what their doaners want they make money. If they lose elections they make money. So when picking between doing what doaners want and winning elections, guess which one they are going to do.