Koch-Backed Group Applauds Bernie Sanders

There hasn’t been a Republican praised by both the NRA and a Koch Brothers organization this week. Yet Bernie Sanders has been.

The Koch-funded group Freedom Partners cut an ad complimenting the Vermont senator for his opposition to the Export-Import Bank of the United States, a government-funded agency that helps subsidize the exports of U.S. businesses. Conservative- and libertarian-minded economists, journalists, and elected officials have decried Ex-Im as a form of corporate welfare, and Freedom Partners has found an unusual ally in the self-described democratic socialist.