This photo taken June 11, 2014 shows David Koch, the executive vice president of Wichita's Koch Industries in New York City. In the short-on-specifics elections just ended, the economy was the main issue, Republicans ran against President Barack Obama and Democrats campaigned against the billionaire Koch brothers. That leaves the new GOP majority in Congress with a mandate to improve the economy, yet without a national consensus on how to go about it. At the same time, shrunken Democratic minorities in the House and Senate are in search of a more appealing approach. (AP Photo/The Wichita Eagle, Travis Heying)

David Koch’s Most Significant Legacy Is the Election of Donald Trump

Efforts made by Koch, largely ignored by the mainstream press, primed key states to elect a GOP president. Trump was simply the beneficiary.

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