“Billionaires and special interests are conspiring to buy our political system,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., declared on the Senate floor last month. “They have created an evasive enemy that slithers out of sight, with only glimpses here or there.” Well blow me over. The senator must have been talking about the dark money of the “Climate Industrial Complex.” Wait, of course she wasn’t. It was yet another attack by a top Democratic pol on the Koch brothers.

Warren’s beef was that the Kochs were funnelling some of their wealth through organizations such as Donors Trust and the State Policy Network to think tanks that apparently trick people into believing they are “genuine and unbiased.” The speech reveals how much the Left fears ideas, to the point that its best hope is to suppress competition.