The corporate constituency, an old Republican stalwart, was most crucial because of the nearly limitless resources it was prepared to provide for the antigovernment agenda. In one sense, nothing more profound was at work than the privileged class protecting its privileges. But as the number of millionaires and billionaires multiplied in the globalized economy, the amount of disposable wealth also increased exponentially and flowed disproportionately toward conservative causes as well as candidates.
