consider a lot of big contractors will get that crony payola too. just saying.
Very likely.
Some years ago the Communist historian Eric Hobsbawm, wrote a book, widely praised on the left, called Primitive Rebels, about criminal gangs in Sicily whom he saw as Marxists avant la lettre.Their criminality would be seen as social justice if they had draped their activities in the language of progressives like himself.
Hobsbawm, by the way, was showered with academic honors notwithstanding that he had no regrets about the 100 million victims that his comrades slaughtered on their way to the new world.
To Hobsbawm the promise of a socialist paradise was so great, that it was worth the risk that another 100 million innocents might be slaughtered to achieve it the next time.
Leftism – progressivism – is a criminal mentality.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/04/understanding-progressive-mind-david-horowitz/