The Koch brothers have a strong libertarian ethos, so there is some crossover to progressives.
But they are very strong cultural forces behind climate change denial and against expansion of health care. So… “not that bad” depends on how much weight you give those issues as well
I guess what surprises me is that there was -some- foresight at some point to bury that stuff. That was long before election time. Trump today seems like a lost idiot, so was he more lucid then or was he taking direction from someone to prep him for a run loooong before he jumped into the arena?
What I read made it sound like it was associates of Trump that made the call, not Trump himself. So it might have been others trying to clean things up once he opened his mouth about Obama’s grades.
People who hammer Obama on grades and birth certificates do. He was using the nomenclature of people like Trump when talking about Trump. Kinda like when people refer to the US as “Murica!” when speaking about a particular crowd.
I also sometimes refer to him as Barry in some posts, eg 👉
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Barry come back, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Barry come back, you can blame it all on us
We were wrong, and we just can’t live without you
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