In many States, that goes back to before the founding.
By Prohibition in the 1920s, it was taken to even lower levels because of organized crime acquisition of most of the political class.
Masquerade balls for the London, old Europe, Ivy League elites, and blue bloods has been a thing for centuries (where wife-swapping, drunkenness, prostitutes, narcotics, and debauchery is basic protocol).
Bathhouse country clubs for the older males looking for some last frontier of excitement by violating the "new pledges” dates back to Greek and Roman times. It never went away.
Then look into the truly sadistic ritualistic child abuse and sacrifice. Child death matches, spirit-cooking, Cremation of Care, and God only knows what these degenerates have been up to.
If you listen to members of Congress who talk about indoctrination week as freshmen Congressmen, they are immediately sequestered from the other party, and told not to associate with them. Then after breaking them in on House rules, the calendar, duties & responsibilities, floor procedures, protocols, ethics, and how the basic job works, they are invited to parties with high-end prostitutes, drinking, drugs, and debauchery. Mistresses are the norm and have been for well over 100 years.
The guy who "gifted us" SBRs in the NFA,
Harold Knutson, was caught and arrested for engaging in sodomy with a Labor Dept clerk named Leroy in Arlington in 1924, so they’ve had twinks for the homosexual congressmen too. Congressional aids, who have now made it public on video being clapped in one of the conference rooms, is not a new thing. There were whisperings of these types of activities when I was stationed there in the early-mid 1990s. Our "New Dick” (That was literally the name of the Regimental Orientation Program) instructors were also Congressional aides and had to shuttle dudes around, work closely with providing military support for transportation and other request for Congress.
We also had guys in the unit that were male strippers in clubs that were frequented by DC elites. It was totally against UCMJ for soldiers to have those types of gigs at the time, but the Regimental Commander never pushed the issue, and neither did any of the Company Commanders. Dudes would literally get out of BDUs or Blues at the end of the duty day, grab their stripper kit with sheer speedos in a small sports bag, and head to the clubs.
Moral corruption is generally a prerequisite for DC. These guys and gals are mostly members of elite societies well before they even run for office, which is how they are selected by the parties to be nominated behind the scenes to the financiers. “He’s one of us. He can be trusted."