Koch is very much ahead of the curve, he doesn't approach this as your typical dilettante lackadaisical donor he approaches this like someone with three engineering degrees from MIT. This network and its campaign are his unique creation and much of what is happening couldn't be done by others, Heritage and ALEC pre-date him but what had they achieved before merging with him?
The Republicans have been doing this bullshit forever. Anhauser-Busch literally runs Missouri even post-merger. His reach is far larger than any previous singular Republican creation outside the RNC, but the blueprint is not unique. Trump took a huge chunk out of the Koch plan, because if it was up to them, Scott Walker would have been president. He's fucking evil, but he is a recognizable evil, not special.
Some were related to the Koch machine but most were just Republican insiders who swing wherever the money is coming from, with no specific personal allegiance. The fact that Paul Ryan even quit in 2019 is a sign of DC political weakness within the Koch infrastructure because he was a bought and paid for Koch guy. The most success they have really had was with the Heritage project, and that is going to fucking hurt, but it's already done and gone until the next Republican president And even then the major thing that enabled the Koch machine to exist to the extent that it does was the Citizens United case, which was not specifically a Koch project.
And they've been gone for two years and many of those policies are still in place and some have been expanded. It's almost as if it's not specific to Koch, but more of an alignment with his class interests?
Koch is very much ahead of the curve, he doesn't approach this as your typical dilettante lackadaisical donor he approaches this like someone with three engineering degrees from MIT. This network and its campaign are his unique creation and much of what is happening couldn't be done by others, Heritage and ALEC pre-date him but what had they achieved before merging with him?
The Republicans have been doing this bullshit forever. Anhauser-Busch literally runs Missouri even post-merger. His reach is far larger than any previous singular Republican creation outside the RNC, but the blueprint is not unique. Trump took a huge chunk out of the Koch plan, because if it was up to them, Scott Walker would have been president. He's fucking evil, but he is a recognizable evil, not special.
Trumps cabinet and administration was stacked with Koch cronies, the core policies of his term came from the Koch checklist.
Some were related to the Koch machine but most were just Republican insiders who swing wherever the money is coming from, with no specific personal allegiance. The fact that Paul Ryan even quit in 2019 is a sign of DC political weakness within the Koch infrastructure because he was a bought and paid for Koch guy. The most success they have really had was with the Heritage project, and that is going to fucking hurt, but it's already done and gone until the next Republican president And even then the major thing that enabled the Koch machine to exist to the extent that it does was the Citizens United case, which was not specifically a Koch project.
And they've been gone for two years and many of those policies are still in place and some have been expanded. It's almost as if it's not specific to Koch, but more of an alignment with his class interests?