American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business.
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.
The conservative media movement exists primarily as a moneymaking venture.