Supreme Court rulings allowed donations to separate election advocacy organizations on the supposition that they are independent of the candidate's campaign.

If politics were known for the highest level of moral probity, perhaps we could trust them to do that. Some people stated their belief in this, perhaps as willful self-delusion. The rest of us suspected it was bullshit.

Now we have evidence it is often false. In many cases the official campaign and the "independent" advocacy organization hire the same consultant.