{"id":1671069,"date":"2022-10-04T05:05:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T09:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1671069"},"modified":"2022-10-04T05:06:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T09:06:02","slug":"sanders-foreign-policy-adviser-departs-to-join-koch-funded-think-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sanders-foreign-policy-adviser-departs-to-join-koch-funded-think-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders Foreign Policy Adviser Departs To Join Koch-Funded Think Tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsanders-foreign-policy-adviser-departs-to-join-koch-funded-think-tank%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1671069&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019s (I., Vt.) senior foreign policy adviser, Matt Duss, is leaving his office to join a think tank bankrolled by Charles Koch, a longtime nemesis-cum-ally of the progressive left.<\/p>\n<p>Duss, who since 2017 has served as a top adviser to Sanders, is <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishinsider.com\/2022\/09\/daily-kickoff-whats-driving-jewish-revival-in-poland-the-lakewood-entrepreneur-capitalizing-on-ready-to-drink-cocktails\/\">headed<\/a> to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/programs\/americanstatecraft\/staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Statecraft Program<\/a>, which received a $4.5 million\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/who-we-are\/crisis-group-updates\/charles-koch-institute-announces-major-gift-international-crisis-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grant<\/a>\u00a0last year from the Charles Koch Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders and Duss have\u2014at least until recently\u2014been vocal critics of Charles Koch and his late brother, David, accusing the billionaires of using their political and philanthropic donations to &#8220;buy elections,&#8221; install an &#8220;oligarchy,&#8221; and\u00a0push a &#8220;right-wing Koch brothers ideology.&#8221; But Duss, a longtime Israel critic who has defended me economic boycotts of the Jewish state,\u00a0appears to have found common ground with Koch&#8217;s vision for American retrenchment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Koch Brothers are preparing to try to buy the Democratic Party and buy the 2020 election,&#8221; Sanders\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BernieSanders\/status\/1138255024364986368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> in June 2019. &#8220;We cannot let them. The only way we will stop them is to build a grassroots progressive campaign that rejects their right-wing ideology.&#8221; Sanders also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BernieSanders\/status\/707763063789854720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0in 2016, during his presidential run, &#8220;There is nobody in the United States Congress who has taken on the Koch Brothers more than Bernie Sanders.&#8221; He <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BernieSanders\/status\/793152972322697216?s=20&amp;t=4WyExJO097birr7GJk1O2w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a> later that year: &#8220;Our great nation can no longer be hijacked by right-wing billionaires like the Koch brothers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Duss has\u00a0at times struck the same notes, casting his soon-to-be-patron in an unflattering light. In response to a May 2018 article about purported Koch brothers influence at the Federal Communications Commission,\u00a0Duss\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattduss\/status\/999710963531120645\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>,\u00a0&#8220;Today in oligarchy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although Duss has spent years promoting the Koch brothers as the nation\u2019s top Republican boogeymen, his foreign policy views have become more closely aligned in recent years with those of Charles Koch, who has attempted to unite the a left hostile to American military power with the isolationist right.<\/p>\n<p>Koch teamed up with liberal billionaire George Soros in 2019 to launch the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a think tank staffed with Israel critics and Iran apologists. Quincy Institute experts routinely push for increased diplomacy with concessions to Tehran\u2019s hardline regime, Communist China, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019s senior foreign policy adviser, Matt Duss,\u00a0is leaving his office to join a think tank bankrolled by Charles Koch,\u00a0a\u00a0longtime nemesis-cum-ally of the progressive left.<br \/>\nThe post Sanders Foreign Policy Adviser Departs To Join Koch-Funded Think Tank appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}