#kochland

'We all have to begin to speak differently about trade, how it benefits the economy and foreign policy, how it helps Americans and people abroad,' Joe Crowley said in a 2007 Politico article. After losing a primary to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Joe Crowley is now employed by a lobbying firm and working to pass Trump’s renegotiated NAFTA. According to the new book “Kochland,” written by investigative reporter Christopher Leonard, Koch Industries secretly financed a report by Third Way, a corporate-funded think tank with ties to the centrist wing of the Democratic Party. The report, titled “Why Lou Dobbs is Winning” and published in November 2007, was written to promote the free trade agenda to liberals. The white paper explained it would be the first salvo in a yearlong effort to reshape the messaging around trade policy, warning that “a new and powerful populist strain has emerged on 'both sides' of the left and the right of American politics that threatens to turn the nation fearful and inward.