American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business.
The conservative media movement exists primarily as a moneymaking venture.
FreedomWorks, which is funded primarily by very rich people, solicits donations from non-rich conservative people. More than 80,000 people donated money to FreedomWorks in 2012, and it seems likely that only a small minority of those people were hedge fund millionaires.