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UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM :
LIBERTARIANISM :
RACISM :
BIGOTRY :
EXTREMISM :
HATE GROUPS :
INTOLERANCE :
DONALD TRUMP :
BLATANT FALSEHOODS:
SERIAL LIARS :
REPUBLICAN WAR ON WOMEN : RAPE CULTURE :
CRIME AND CRIMINALS: SEXUAL PREDATORS :
SEXISM :
MISOGYMY :
KOCH BROTHERS :
VIOLENCE :
ASSAULTS:
Behind "Make America Great," the Koch Agenda Returns with a Vengeance
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Behind "Make America Great," the Koch Agenda Returns with a Vengeance
ByTHEDA SKOCPOL, ALEXANDER HERTEL-FERNANDEZ AND CAROLINE TERVO
Published NOVEMBER 21, 2016, 12:09 PM EST
Talking Points Memo: TPM CAFE: OPINION
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/
behind-make-america-great-the-koch-agenda-returns-with-a-vengeance
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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At first glance, the victory of Donald Trump suggests that big political
money has less clout than imagined in U.S. democracy. Not only are
defeated Democrats consumed with blame-shifting and calls to deliver
better messages to a supposedly crucial white working class, but pundits
are portraying President-Elect Trump as a populist politician unmoored
from the establishment or big donors. Some journalists even suggest that
the hundreds of conservative millionaires and billionaires organized by
Charles and David Koch lost relevance this time because the two brothers
personally refused to endorse Trump and their donor network cut back
originally projected spending from almost a billion to a mere $750
million.
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But we beg to differ. As researchers who have been tracking the long-term
rise and recent impact of the Koch network, we see a very different
picture. During the election campaign, Trump relied upon well-established
conservative organizational networks that could reach into many states and
communities. He made overt deals with the National Rifle Association and
the Christian right, and he benefitted indirectly from Koch network
operations centered in a nation-spanning, political party-like federation
called Americans for Prosperity. Even more important, after his campaign
squeaked through on November 8, an unprepared President-Elect Trump
started to fall back on people and plans offered by the Koch network,
which aims to dismantle not only Barack Obamas accomplishments but much of
what the federal government has done for 75 years to promote security and
opportunity for ordinary Americans.
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As we have detailed in a September 2016 research article, for many years
the Kochs and their associates have orchestrated donations from hundreds
of wealthy conservatives to build and support interlocked sets of
free-market-oriented think tanks, advocacy groups, and constituency
mobilization efforts. Growing since 2004 and now spanning three dozen U.S.
states, the Koch centerpiece Americans for Prosperity (AFP) now employs
hundreds of professional operatives, claims close to 300,000 affiliated
volunteer activists, and spends some $150 million annually on electoral
efforts and policy campaigns. Not surprisingly, AFP was very active in the
2016 election, surgically injecting massive resources of money and
canvassing power into key Senate, gubernatorial, and down-ballot races.
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The Kochs certainly did not want Trump to win the GOP nomination; they
preferred the likes of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker or Florida Senator
Marco Rubio. As the New York magnate made surprising headway, the Koch
network shifted resources to Congressional and state battles, pursuing a
strategy designed to maximize post-2016 leverage despite Trump. But now
that Trump has actually prevailed, Koch cleverness hits the jackpot.
Although widely unpopular with the mass public, the Koch policy agenda of
tax cuts for the rich, union busting, Medicare privatization, business
deregulation, and evisceration of environmental and global warming
measures is ripe to be rammed through a GOP-dominated Congress and sent to
the desk of a president who needs Koch-affiliated personnel, understands
very little about policy issues, and will be looking for victorious bills
to sign into law. The stage is perfectly set to advance the core Koch
ultra-free-market agenda, even though the brothers avoided endorsing Trump
and the candidate himself discussed almost none of the relevant policy
shifts in his appeals to voters.
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Topics Covered in This Article
How the Koch Network Played in Election 2016
An Unprepared President-Elect Turns to Koch Politicians
Will a Bait and Switch Presidency Spark Backlash?
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The complete articles may be read at the URLs provided for each.
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