The Kochs and the altright

This is something I've been trying to write for a while, its kinda rough. Let me know what you think.

The Kochs historical background with extreme elements - they and their fathers history with the John Birch Society and Robert LaFevre and Murray Rothbard who went of to found the Ludwig von Mises Institute - is already documented and Nancy MacLeans book examines their association with James McGill Buchanan.

But their contempory interactions and funding aren't as well understood or clearly documented.

What they point to is the Kochs being a major influence on promoting extremists and the pipeline from libertarianism to anarcho capitalism to the altright.

Charles Murray, author of the infamous Bell Curve, was supported in the 1980s by Koch funded think tanks Heritage Foundation and Manhattan Institute and today is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute another Koch funded think tank and David sits on the board of directors.

Garret Jones, an economist at George Mason University (the largest recipiant of Koch funding on college campuses with 95 million between 2005-2015 and earlier this year it was discovered they have in fact obtained control over the hiring and firing of faculty) whose recent monograph was positively reviewed by VDARE in July 2017. Jones draws heavily on the work of white supremacist and eugenicist Richard Lynn, and even personally thanked the Pioneer Fund figurehead in an article he published in the Journal of Economic Growth in 2005. In 2015 Jones delivered a lecture which argued that less democracy in the United States would lead to better governance.

(You have to scroll down a bit to the timeline of interviews)

Florida Atlantic University professor Marshall DeRosa is a member of the League of the South and employed by the Kochs for their 'prisoner outreach'.

Assistant Professor Jonathan Anomaly at the Department of Political Economy and Moral Science at the University of Arizona, which has received 1.8 million from the Kochs and 2.6 million from their associates, published an article Public Goods and Education. In it Anomaly discussed the value of exploring links between genetics and IQ of different racial groups, and the value of eugenics. And elsewhere opposes public education, something the Kochs have long promoted.

These three come just from stories found on r/KochWatch, considering how much money they spend on colleges, endowments they have provided, schools they have set up on campuses how many more are there?

Through Donors Capital Fund the Kochs fund Daniel Pipes Islamophobic Middle East Forum.

The Kochs, along with the Mercers and DeVos, fund another think tank Young America's Foundation that funded those lecture tours that caused so much commotion featuring Murray, David Horowitz, Ann Coulter, Ted Nugent, Milo Yiannopoulos. Its board member James B. Taylor is the former president of the National Policy Institute, now run by altright icon Richard Spencer. Other speakers it has sponsored have included Robert Spencer, and now Ben Shapiro.

Dave Rubin now receives funding from many Koch groups

Charlie Kirks TPUSA is also Koch linked.

In Canada, Rebel Media was founded by Ezra Levant – formerly he worked at the Koch funded Fraser Institute and did his internship at the Charles G. Koch Foundation. It has received funding from the Middle East Forum, which the Kochs fund. And has produced anti-Muslim attack ads with them featuring far-right personalities.

Rebel Media has been a regular platform for Jordan Peterson who they have raised money for, Lauren Southern, Gavin McInnes, and Faith Goldy - who favourably cite Richard Spencer.

Jordan Peterson also often recommends Koch linked groups, pals around with Dave Rubin, and appears at TPUSA events with Kirk, Shapiro, and other Koch linked speakers.

Yet another think tank employing many Koch alumni is Speech First, it promotes the mantra of 'liberals' silencing dissent on campuses. The same cultural war ideology promoted by many of the people and groups listed here.

And for additional evidence, the high school carriculum they donate when schools run short of funding (because of Koch backed efforts to cut taxes that fund them): 1, 2.

As the Garret Jones link demonstrates Stefan Molyneux maintains connections to Jones, the von Mises Institute founded by their former associate Rothbard, Murray who is Koch funded, the League of the South which DeRosa is associated with, and others in the emerging altright, which are all Koch linked either through direct funding or associating with those they fund.

The conventional economists and think tanks they support are combined with the academics that provide an 'intellectual' underpinning to "racial realism" and the groups pushing the mantra of 'liberal' take over of college campuses and society being under threat by the likes of Rubin, Peterson, Kirk, Molyneux and outlets like Rebel Media to motivate disaffected young men and provide simple emotionally appealing explanations for what the cause of their problems are, all the while directing them to support campaigns and politicians the Kochs back.

What this should all point to is that the Kochs are not merely classical liberals or libertarians concerned with government overreach, but rather while we have no direct quotes we can nevertheless surmise from their repeated pattern of associations and funding that the Kochs seek to create a 'let the chips fall where they may' institutionally-biased racism concealed within economic jargon.

And it should also point to a confluence of these academics and media personalities pushing a demographic to an increasingly extreme position that welcomes conflict.

As one of their pet academics once said:

In support of building their own youth movement, another speaker, the libertarian historian Leonard Liggio, cited the success of the Nazi model. In his paper titled "National Socialist Political Strategy: Social Change in a Modern Industrial Society with an Authoritarian Tradition," Liggio, who was affiliated with the Koch-funded Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) from 1974 to 1998, described the Nazis' successful creation of a youth movement a key to their capture of the state. Like the Nazis, he suggested, libertarians should organise university students to create group identity.