Things in Washington have changed — and every DC lobbyist knows it

Things in Washington have changed — and every DC lobbyist knows it

I’m old enough to remember when corporate lobbyists swarmed Capitol Hill. I also remember when half the members of Congress who retired got lucrative lobbying jobs taking their old chums out for meals or drinks and selling them on whatever the corporate backers wanted. No longer. Now, the lobbying business is all about sucking up to Trump.Harvard sociologist Theda Skocpol calls it “competitive sycophancy,” in which “competing sets of people [vie…