You took the words right out of my keyboard with, as a sideline, 2 exceptions:

1. that I would have the scorpion sting instead of bite, and
2. have the Venn diagram of Democrats an Big Money almost fully overlap rather than have them overlapping by a sliver.

That aside, I think you nailed the issue, much better than I did in some of my articles/replies. Kudos.

The Republican party had lost the battle of ideas, and, out of necessity, has experimented with turning the whole party into the full-on pro Big Money, authoritarian, fascist party that would make life so much easier for the powers that be. Big Money won’t have to deal with people, voting and freedom anymore. Just the one puppet authoritarian. Democracy is difficult and a far from perfect system for both Big Money and The People. It is better for The People than the alternatives, but if you get the people focused on democracy’s weaknesses and deficiencies, by amplifying grievances, you can overthrow it. The 2-party system allows Big Money to play The People. If fascism becomes too hard, they simply fall back on the Democratic Party that serves them fine too, a bit more complicated, but it will do. A democracy based on a plurality of parties often requires alliances to form a government where more extremist parties can have a voice besides the more centrist (read: Big Money) parties. Socialists should have their own party. So should BLM. And antifa. At least anti-establishment parties on the left don’t have to feel that their votes don’t count, or start voting for fascism to make their point.

But Big Money is not served with a democracy that has multiple voices in government.