It’s that time again. No, not Election Day — the biennial spasm of anguish among those who believe campaign finance laws are the cause and solution of all the nation’s ills.

The simplistic worldview unfailingly produces jeremiads in such publications as the Huffington Post, lamenting that “[c]ash from unknown sources is flooding the most important races” and that “the integrity of our elections has been undermined.”

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