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Great exposé of decade-long grift by 3 young right-wingers—created nonprofit fronts, raised $10M a year from donors, their marketing firms kept 99% of the money. Met as college Republicans—but no mention here of their Koch network training along the way. 1/2 
Ringleader John Connors campaignnow.com/story was a “consultant” for the Kochs’ Americans for Prosperity for 3 years, co-conspirator Kyle Maichle was AFP’s College Programs Coordinator and worked for Koch-connected climate-change-denying Heartland Institute. #EvilGeniuses 2/2
Source: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
One small measure of the insane, socially destructive growth of the U.S. financial industry over the last 40 years, and its contribution to inequality: Steven Mnuchin “was hardly a top-tier financial player,” but his “net worth was more than $400 million.” nytimes.com/2020/08/30/bus…
Mnuchin’s stepmother “has reminded people that she is not Steven’s biological mother. (The couple married when he was a toddler.) She reluctantly attended Steven’s 2017 wedding,” where she “pretended her arm was injured in order to avoid having to shake hands with Mr. Trump.”
Mnuchin’s $400 million, by the way, means he’s in the top 0.01%, 33,000 superrich people who own 11% of America’s wealth. Their piece of the economic pie has quadrupled in relative size since 1980, as result of the, yes, class war waged by #EvilGeniuses. review.chicagobooth.edu/economics/2017…
