Krugman nails it. The far right and the billionaires will only accept total surrender. No compromise

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22. Before the Koch brothers there were the Hunt Brothers

Founding Fathers of the John Birch Society. Sons of bigamist, poker player, oil man and billionaire HL Hunt. And yes they are characters from the series Dallas.

Billionaires who sold their oil to North Vietnam during the Vietnamese Military action. And we stopped bombing the harbors when their ships came in under a foreign flag.

Caught in the 80s and fined for manipulating and destabilizing the world silver market and not paying taxes and declared bankruptcy.

Involved in oil fields in Libya and Iraq. Their oil deal with the Kurds of Northern Iraq threatened to destabilize the newly formed Iraqi government. Conservative political activists and major Supporters of the Bush Family

Recently have remade their billions on the Bakken Oil fields in North Dakota.

I read years ago about how they repeatedly stole oil revenues from their poorer neighbors living on tribal land and were repeatedly caught. On the third time in court the judge asked why they kept trying to cheat them out of their oil revenues. One of the brothers responded that they were entitled to any money they could take from anyone. This is a good way to get a sense of at least some of the 1%. Entitled psychopaths.