DrLove
Diamond Member
Excellent response to Little Marco's two-faced screed from Michelle Goldberg. I get the feeling this guy has a double-digit IQ (not a compliment)
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Sen. Marco Rubio is extremely mad at corporations for ābending a knee to woke progressive craziness,ā and heās going to do, well, something about it.
On Sunday, in a fulminating New York Post opinion article, Rubio wrote that ācorporate America eagerly dumps woke, toxic nonsense into our culture, and itās only gotten more destructive with time. These campaigns will be met with the same strength that any other polluter should expect.ā
This is what most Republican populism looks like. (A possible exception is shameful insurrectionist Josh Hawley, who has a genuine trustbusting plan.) Rubio is following a model pioneered by Trump: Rail against big corporations, occasionally bully those that defy you, but ultimately put their profits and influence first.
On issues of race and sex, the disjunction between the values of the Republican Party and those of big corporations are a function of our counter-majoritarian politics.
Because of gerrymandering and the small-state bias in the Senate, Republicans can afford to antagonize young people, people in cities and most people of color. Consumer businesses cannot. The Republican Party doesnāt have to care what the majority of Americans think. Public-facing corporations largely do. This creates a tension between Republicansā foundational economic interests and ideology and their cultural grievances.
Republicans no doubt find this incredibly frustrating, but not frustrating enough to ally even momentarily with Democrats. After all, Republicans are angry at corporations in the first place because they think corporations should be on their side in political fights. Democrats would love to have Republican support for reining in corporate power, even if Republicans were motivated by revenge.
But Republican threats are empty. No matter how much they hate what they call āwoke capital,ā they know they canāt own the libs by teaming up with them.
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Michelle Goldberg: Marco Rubioās āwoke capitalā tantrum
Sen. Marco Rubio is extremely mad at corporations for ābending a knee to woke progressive craziness,ā and heās going to do, well, something about it.
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