you can. you can get your people in agencies and courts when the time looks favorable, and they will transcend the Senate committee composition and the President's administration.

> You can’t lobby to abolish the gold standard

odd example since that's gone for 50-90 years already, but again you can.

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think about it this way. periodically there's a conspiracy documentary about people pulling the strings of the elected President. what they neglect to mention is that every possible permutation of potentially electable Presidents have opportunists already waiting. You don't have to be a partisan. You don't have to actually be a partisan. Loads of people are doing things beneficial to them.