The author line failed to reveal the original source of this column:  The Washington Post.  The ADN posting looks like a direct to ADN letter or essay.  The fact is this column was distributed throughout the nation through the Washington Post connections.  A carefully contrived, insidious creation by the patriarch of a family determined to destroy the Constitutional Republic and all human and civil rights contained therein.  First on the agenda was support of the Trump tax gifts to his fellow billionaires, i.e., Koch family, etc.  Couched in soft tones well edited by professional wordsmiths, the entire essay is a pack of lies.  The Koch family and their Oil Monopoly billionaires have hijacked the entire electoral system of the country, one state legislature at a time, through ALEC, the most traitorous organization ever created.  They gamed the election system in key states with Republican governors and legislatures denying voting rights. The worst family plaguing the nation in history.