"Charles and David Koch are the most striking example of extraordinarily wealthy Americans who have had an outsized impact on the politics of the last forty years—and whose impact is reaching a new peak right now." DK
This is a top 1% conservative witch hunt which misses the point of what has been happening, at the same time, and for a lot longer than a mere 40 years, with the other half, so to speak, of that top 1%:
One can think, without any effort, of even more, many more, globalist, Democratic, extraordinarily wealthy Americans, who have had an even more outsized impact on the politics of the last 40 years and before, many of them very well known investors, heads of well known corporations, philanthropic organizations, etc. The list goes on and on, of those Democrats willing to sell the domestic economy out to the original, globalist, post WWI and also post WWII, ideal of the American republic, enshrined in The Declaration of Independence.
It is an ideal which the conservative Republican right, has, finally, been able, since even before the 60s, futilely at first, to use, and finally, to turn on them, futilely.
Two have, thus, long been able to play, and lose, the good globalization game.
Why? Because the globalization game is rigged against high labor cost multiculturalist states.
Terms search: trading American interests, Trading Places, Kennedy Round, NAFTA, Kindleberger, Wilson, White, Morgenthau, open door, self determination, Marshall, Sovereignty at Bay, Kennan, Vernon, etc etc
Why? Because the globalization game is rigged against high labor cost multiculturalist states.
Terms search: trading American interests, Trading Places, Kennedy Round, NAFTA, Kindleberger, Wilson, White, Morgenthau, open door, self determination, Marshall, Sovereignty at Bay, Kennan, Vernon, etc etc
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