Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was A Mistake

By artappraiser on Fri, 11/13/2020 - 5:29pm |

Charles Koch's regrets: In a rare interview, the libertarian billionaire concedes that his GOP partisanship and activism badly deepened America’s divisions. As he puts it in his new book, “Boy, did we screw up! What a mess!” https://t.co/yX69bpndOU via @WSJ
— Gary Rosen (@garyrosenWSJ) November 13, 2020

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/charles-koch-says-his-partisanship-was-a-mistake-11605286893

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In Hindi we have a saying “Nau Sau Choohe Khaa Kar Billi Haj Ko Chali” translates “After eating 900 mice, a cat is seeking redemption.”
— Shikha (@_shikha) November 13, 2020

That’s so good. Wins the internet today.
— Nicholas A. Christakis (@NAChristakis) November 13, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/13/2020 - 5:31pm

Charles Koch: “I congratulate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on their victory. I look forward to finding ways to work with them to break down the barriers holding people back, whether in the economy, criminal justice, immigration, the Covid-19 pandemic, or anywhere else.” https://t.co/7cTj59ZKCq
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) November 13, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/13/2020 - 5:33pm

For the record . . . Here in the ~~Dag~~ Business Insider/WSJ

Chuck: Stuff a sock in it you 'libertarian' grifter!

By oldenGoldenDecoy on Sat, 11/14/2020 - 4:59am |

In a new Wall Street Journal article, the billionaire Charles Koch expressed regret about fostering partisanship.
He told The Journal that his new mission is to work across party lines on issues he sees as key, citing the economy, criminal justice, and immigration as examples.
The Journal reported that in a new book, Koch wrote: "Boy, did we screw up! What a mess!"
Koch and his brother David, who died last year, helped fund the rise of the tea party, which pushed the Republican Party significantly to the right over the past decade.

https://www.businessinsider.com/charles-koch-partisanship-mistake-boy-di...

The billionaire Charles Koch, who has funneled millions into the GOP and conservative movements, reportedly expressed misgivings over how that money had fueled excessive
partisanship.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal's Douglas Belkin published Friday, Koch spoke about his new mission of unification across partisan lines.

He also shared with The Journal parts of his new book, "Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World," in which he said he regretted his partisanship and the divisions it fostered.

"Boy, did we screw up!" he wrote, according to The Journal.

"What a mess!"

~OGD~

by oldenGoldenDecoy on Sat, 11/14/2020 - 11:11am

A quibble that "grifter" is not an accurate usage here and defangs its usage against a family like the Trump's who truly do fit the term. Koch's are inherited big wealth, truly the good old elite privileged white upper class WASP's, where philanthropists know better than the underclass what the underclass' needs are. Quite different. Trump's opposing nouveau riche grifter persona and meritocratic narrative (bullshit of course) is precisely what appeals to many of his fans. Koch's are the establishment libertarian conservative types Trump ran against.

by artappraiser on Sat, 11/14/2020 - 1:00pm

Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was A Mistake

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