Koch seems to be on the fringes of his own party on this...

About a year and a half ago I was having coffee with a (very minor) young local CDU functionary. At some point he started talking about the need to develop a "modern conservatism". This of course in the context of a major city with high proportions of

• migrants
  
• single-parent households
  
• gays
  
• persons dependent on subsidized housing
  
• environmentalism and global climate change

Some CDU politicians, like von der Leyen, at least seem to recognize that these issues exist. The Kochs do not.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman