This exchange between Rachel Maddow and Tim Phillips, president of the conservative interest group Americans for Prosperity, is fascinating. Phillips is a smoothy, but cleverly, Maddow ekes out of him just about everything you need to know if you want to understand Americans for Prosperity, including who it’s funders are and what its leaders’ real interests happen to be.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=139752