,
27 tweets,
17 min read
Read on Twitter
I'm astounded that more don't realize Trump is merely symptomatic of what the GOP has become. He's a figurehead, important to understand!
Image 1: GOP path to extremism
Image 2: Koch influence
Image 3: Koch-connected Council for National Policy, the "genuine leaders" of the GOP
Image 1: GOP path to extremism
Image 2: Koch influence
Image 3: Koch-connected Council for National Policy, the "genuine leaders" of the GOP
They're behind the extremist judges like Kavanaugh. Have you heard of The Federalist Society? the Judicial Crisis Network? Judicial Watch? Those are Koch and #CNP organizations.
The Mercers - with major ties to #CNP - backed Cruz for President, then Trump. They also have stakes in Cambridge Analytica and apparently Breitbart per chart. Rebekah Mercer connected Bannon with Trump.
Koch and the #CNP members are behind the Trump Administration and some of its private contractors. The DeVos and Prince families have multigenerational ties to the CNP.
The Council for National Policy is a huge umbrella organization under which Moral Majority, Tea Party, and gun rights organizations and members fall. It's full of Dominionists, white nationalists, and other extremists.
Orgs include John Birch, Heritage, NRA, Washington Times...
Orgs include John Birch, Heritage, NRA, Washington Times...
Many Council for National Policy members and orgs have ties to Russia or are Russia-friendly. The World Congress Families is just one of many #CNP orgs.
And the House Freedom Caucus? Lots of #CNP.
The destruction of our public education by DeVos? #CNP.
The 80% of evangelicals who voted for Trump? Influenced by #CNP and their orgs:
Trump is a FIGUREHEAD.
Koch and the Council for National Policy members are the black souls of the GOP.
Koch and the Council for National Policy members are the black souls of the GOP.
The Council for National Policy organization is on @HateWatch, and many of its sub-organizations like the Family Research Council, World Congress of Families, League of the South, and Gun Owners of America are designated hate groups.
Anti-LGBTQ
Anti-Muslim
Anti-LGBTQ
Anti-Muslim
Mysogynistic and anti-choice.
Kochs and the #CNP been working at infiltrating the GOP and the judiciary (see @jennycohn1 for their connections to voting machines, etc.) since at least the 1980s. Here's James Dobson's speech to the CNP in the mid 1990s.
Trump is a figurehead.
Kochs and the #CNP been working at infiltrating the GOP and the judiciary (see @jennycohn1 for their connections to voting machines, etc.) since at least the 1980s. Here's James Dobson's speech to the CNP in the mid 1990s.
Trump is a figurehead.
NRA, GOA, gun rights, and the militia movement leaders like Larry Pratt have been listed as Council for National Policy. NRA leaders and board members like Oliver North, Wayne LaPierre, etc. have also been connected.
Here's the CNP agenda from a religious rather than the libertarian lens. They have much in common: smaller government, privatization, reconstruction, rich get richer, poor get poorer, brown ppl bad, LGBTQ ppl evil, women are baby-carriers. #Dominionists.
Lots of extremist media originates from Council for National Policy members and orgs, like Jerome Corsi (formerly of InfoWars), Steve Bannon of Breitbart, Tony Perkins' and Washington Watch, and the Washington Times:
About those private contractors? Erik Prince (Blackwater fame) and his sister Betsy DeVos alone cover a lot of ground there. The DeVos family is closely tied to Bethany Christian Services, the org that fosters the immigrant children at $700/night:
Here's a little on Erik Prince:
More on Prince and DeVos
And all the fuss that Pence, Pompeo, Prince, etc. are making over getting Iran? It's based on their religious beliefs. Many CNP members think war with Iran is Biblical prophesy.
The evangelicals' tens of millions spent on Israel, the moving of the embassy to Jerusalem, the lobbying? Pastor Hagee is a key figure in that business, as are others in the #CNP
{Thread}↕
{Thread}↕
Here's Iran again
They also think Russia will smite all their enemies:
This is so massively bigger than Trump and even #TrumpRussia. Trump is a figurehead. He's a "useful idiot," technically an "agent" of a Russia, Israel, and UAE-friendly domestic hostile power and foreign hostile power(s).
Trump is a figurehead.
{Thread}↕
Trump is a figurehead.
{Thread}↕
