It finally happened. The Republican Party has gone too far to the right for even the Koch Brothers. The Kochs, as businessmen, understand the value of immigrants to the economy. In opposition to Trump and the far right wing of the Republican Party, the Kochs’ LIBRE initiative is placing ads praising Democrats for their support of DACA.
"This stands out. People when they talk about the Koch network ... they point at areas like tax reform, where we've worked very closely with Republican members," Wadi Gaitan, a spokesman for LIBRE, told NPR.
"Here on this issue, we have Democrats where we want to make sure that their constituents are aware that they are working on a permanent solution for Dreamers and on border security," he added. "So it certainly is a unique effort."
The ads do not praise Democrats exclusively. In fact, there are more of them for Republicans. But the fact that the Kochs want to help Democrats at all is a sign of how extreme and out of touch the GOP has become. They’re making the Koch Brothers look like the good guys.