Koch in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, explains why he wrote a new book with a strange half apology expressing regret at the environment of open warfare between Democrats and Republicans that he played a big role in causing.
After President Barack Obama was elected in 2008 and the tea party (which pushed to slash federal spending) emerged, Mr. Koch threw his weight behind the new movement and its candidates. “We did not create the tea party. We shared their concern about unsustainable government spending, and we supported some tea-party groups on that issue,” Mr. Koch wrote in an email. “But it seems to me the tea party was largely unsuccessful long-term, given that we’re coming off a Republican administration with the largest government spending in history.”
Mr. Koch said he has since come to regret his partisanship, which he says badly deepened divisions. “Boy, did we screw up!” he writes in his new book. “What a mess!”
Oh well that’s fine then…
- Stalin after the Ukraine famine killed 4 million: “Boy did I screw up!”
- Pol Pot after torturing and murdering 1 in every 5 Cambodians: “what a mess!”
- Mao after the Great Leap Forward caused 25 million to starve: “Doh!”
Stalin did not create the Ukraine Famine. Based on other factors.
This narrative was based on only one western report. Not factual.
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