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I'm back. Bernie is now excoriating the Koch brothers, whom he describes as having "tentacles" everywhere. They are, in his view, "the leading force" in "the oligarchic movement."
There are "no fewer than eighteen billionaires" involved in a right-wing plot. But the Kochs are uniquely insidious, he believes. Their "private political machine" rivaled, and threatened to subsume," the GOP.
They cloak their activities in secrecy and present it as philanthropy. "According to more than a few political experts, the Koch family now has more political power than either the Democratic or Republican parties."
"This is nuts," I am thinking. Then I paused to look at Donald Trump's Twitter feed.

My God, we're screwed.
The Koch brothers, he writes, won Citizens United.

"But the Koch brothers are not through yet."
He then lists the things David Koch ran on as a libertarian in 1980. It's standard libertarian stuff. "By any rational standard," he intones, "these are extreme views."
He's off his rocker.

This is ugly stuff.
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