TEA PARTY

“[Jane] Mayer devotes considerable space to demonstrating that the Tea Party emerged in large part from the Koch network—it may have begun more or less spontaneously, but within days the various state chapters were being effectively coordinated by groups like AFP [Americans for Prosperity], who quickly introduced new themes like opposition to cap-and-trade legislation into the mix.”

“The Koch Brothers’ New Brand,” a review in the New York Review [March 10, 2016; pp. 16-18] by Bill McKibben of Jane Mayer’s Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (2016).