Republicans were pro-Democracy as long as organized crime had a place in it. That was before the Koch brothers organized the systematic takeover of states by local Republican committees. Before Republicans controlled most of the 50 states.

I'm trying to make some sense of where the Democratic Party & Republican Party and democracy in the United States is headed.

Could the Koch Network abandon the Republican Party?  

"In July, the Kochs partnered with liberal investor and philanthropist George Soros to found the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a think tank dedicated to promoting peaceful U.S. foreign policy."

A big part of the Republican Party base likes insane racists and insane racist conspiracy candidates like Marge Green get their vote. 

Then there's the "Trump Organization." Sounds like a Mafia family doesn't it? The Manhattan District Attorney's grand jury is looking at the Trump Organization like it would the Gambino Organization. Republicans pledging fealty to Donald Trump might be in trouble if he winds up in prison. 

Back when Coatesville was a drug distribution hub for Mafia controlled heroin it was easier to predict what Chester County Republicans would do next. They used organized crime procedures to run the CCRC. 

 

Chester County Republican Party Chair and County Commissioner "Teddy" Rubino ran Chester County government like Angelo Bruno's crime syndicate ran the Delaware Valley. 

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Friday, November 1, 2019

Even after his imprisonment for extortion former Chester County Commissioner & CCRC Chair Theodore Rubino is highly revered among Republicans.

About the same time Teddy Rubino did his organized crime in Chester County Richard Nixon was associated with BeBe Rebozo & Mafia consigliere Bill Bonanno.

"Former Mafia consigliere Bill Bonanno, the son of legendary New York godfather Joe Bonanno, asserts that Nixon ''would never have gotten anywhere'' without his old Mob allegiances. And he reports that — through Rebozo — Nixon ''did business for years with people in (Florida Mafia boss Santos) Trafficante's Family, profiting from real estate deals, arranging for casino licensing, covert funding for anti-Castro activities, and so forth.''

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The CCRC in supposedly more liberal Chester County PA has gone totally bonkers with QAnon conspiracy and former CCRC Chair Buddy Rhodes allegedly sending busses from Coatesville VA Medical Center to Trump's January 6th insurrection rally. 

 As previously reported, Paul Martino, a venture capitalist and ally to Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe is the largest funder of the Keeping Kids in Schools PAC. The latest campaign finance documents show a late donation by former Congressman Ryan Costello, making him the second-largest funder of the PAC.

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QAnon and Trump insanity dominate Washington DC Beltway politics. 

The political world Joe Biden lived in for decades which included a Mafia tinged GOP. That political world is  dead. But President Biden tries to live in that world. 

But maybe all the we're pro-democracy if organized crime has a place in it was just because Republicans didn't run the whole show. Maybe the desire deep in Republicans dark heart was a Republican Mafia dictatorship with absolute control of the USA, like "Emperor Trump."

Politics Girl gets it. I don't know if she has a way out of the predicament we're in:

Could the Koch Network abandon the Republican Party?

Predicting the future of the GOP the Democratic Party and democracy is very difficult. But maybe there's a Koch Organization fossil fuel dipped rainbow coming to assist the Democratic Party & Democracy, kind of. 

The Republican Party was on a downward track until about 2006 when the Koch Network took over the Republican Party and put their MIT computational science and engineering to work in the Republican Party structure.  

In 2008 a Black man became president and the 20% of Americans and 50% of Republicans who are terminally racist began looking for a white supremacist candidate for president. 

In 2020 the white supremacist dream candidate appeared in the form of Donald Trump. The other GOP presidential candidates never had a chance. 

But maybe there's a chink in the GOP insane conspiracy racist armor. Could the Koch Organization be giving up on Republicans and swinging their considerable weight behind Democrats? 

The Koch meetings are secretive. Hardly anything is public. But now and then something leaks out:

"The Kochs sponsor candidates, think tanks, advocacy groups and academic groups pushing a conservative, free-market agenda.

Recently, there have been disagreements with the Republican Party under President Donald Trump on issues such as free trade and immigration. Americans for Prosperity, the Kochs’ primary political advocacy group, is shifting focus toward “finding nonpartisan solutions,” according to a June memo, and it’s prepared to support candidates who get things done regardless of party.

In July, the Kochs partnered with liberal investor and philanthropist George Soros to found the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a think tank dedicated to promoting peaceful U.S. foreign policy.

Leonard said he isn’t convinced the moves constitute a real change to the Kochs’ political goals.

“It feels like an adaptable reaction to the moment,” he said, “even as Koch keeps its eye on the long-term strategy of doing one thing, which is constraining the reach of the federal government, dismantling the administrative state and pushing back the reach of government as far as possible.”

The political network is “exactly like the corporation,” he said. “It’s run with a long-term view. It has strategic patience.”

When Chase returned to Wichita to rejoin Koch Industries after his years in Austin, he began a rotation of high-level jobs, including stints in mergers and acquisitions, tax structuring, agronomics and trading. It was designed as an MBA-like experience to familiarize him with various parts of the operation.

Koch Industries won’t detail its succession plan beyond saying that one is in place, and that roles are filled by those most qualified.

If Chase eventually succeeds his father in running the firm and the political network, he’ll become one of the country’s most influential people."

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Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy (War and Peace Library) Hardcover – April 9, 2021

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Nixon’s Caribbean Milieu, 1950–1968

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