The Koch Brothers are none too happy with the GOP field, especially Donald Trump's and Ted Cruz's muscular rhetoribc about fighting Islamic terrorism.
Billionaire industrialist and political megadonor Charles Koch in a new interview slams Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's idea to ban Muslims from the U.S.
Kosh said in a story published Friday that such a proposal would "destroy our free society."
"Who is it that said, ‘If you want to defend your liberty, the first thing you’ve got to do is defend the liberty of people you like the least’?” Koch told The Financial Times.
And yet the surveillance state and many of the other terror fighting tools that the Koch's hate are made necessary by Muslim migration to this country. This is just like their idea that we need open borders and small government. The two are in conflict. If you worsen a problem, then you are responsible for fixing it.
If you hate the NSA, the TSA, drones and the security state, then stop bringing Muslim migrants to America. You can have Trump's ban and a relaxed security state. Or you can have no ban and the situation we have now.
If the Koch Bros want a free society, they might start by realizing that no society is absolutely free. There are trade offs to make.