In mid-November, The Wall Street Journal published an interview with US petrochemical tycoon Charles Koch. The timing was apt: Koch, and his late brother David, had spent more than $1.5 billion over four decades to push the Republican party to the libertarian Right. Now the GOP’s candidate, Donald Trump, was refusing to accept that he had lost the White House.
Koch, now 85, cut a contrite figure. He said he regretted the partisanship that his money had done so much to produce. As he wrote in his new book, ‘Boy, did we screw up.’
