Another slam dunk by Democratic campaign-finance lawyer Bob Bauer.

Here, he explains how the logic behind new campaign-finance regulations — let’s call them speech restrictions, shall we? — speech restrictions morphed from stopping “corruption” to stopping the “appearance of corruption” to stopping “circumvention” of the previous regulations to stopping the “appearance of circumvention.”

The logic is self-sustaining and has no endpoint. People have to remember this.

There is no end point to what the “clean-government” folks want. Reform isn’t a goal, it’s a never-ending process. After all, what would the people in the campaign-finance-reform industry do if their goals were ever achieved? They’d be out of business. So they call for more and more and tighter and tighter restrictions until the First Amendment as we used to know it is a distant memory.