Why Republicans now pretend to hate corporate America.

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday issued a statement through his Political Action Committee calling on “Republicans and Conservatives to fight back” against the corporate entities they spoke out against the new set of state bills and laws restricting the right to vote. He issued a broad net calling for boycotts of ‘Major League Baseball (MLB), Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, JPMorgan Chase, ViacomCBS, Citigroup, Cisco, UPS and Merck’, urging supporters: ‘Do not go back on their products until they strive for it. He reiterated that the 2020 election for a good friend was stolen from him again.

While Trump’s unfounded cries about the ‘stolen election’ are an inconvenience to many other top-elected Republicans, the party had no problem harnessing the energy out of that anger to sharpen the voting restrictions. And the announcement by Major League Baseball last week that he was going to take the All-Star Game out of the Atlanta area united the party in defense of its state law by the state and against the “wake” turn of America.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has continued to try to restore his credibility under the Republican base after Trump’s attack on him after the election, saying Major League Baseball “conceded to fears and lies of liberal activists.” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott chose not to throw the first field in a game in Texas Rangers, saying he would “participate in an event held by MLB.” Senator Marco Rubio in Florida, the master of making a symbolic gesture here and there against the American business community in his latest redesign as a working class tribune, has appealed to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred for his membership to leave Augusta National if he is truly committed to pressure on Georgia. Architect Sen. Tom Cotton het observed that America’s businessmen are far less concerned about human rights violations by their business partners in China than they are in Georgia. A group of senators are working on the rituals, nothing else, legislation to draft legislation to take away the release of antitrust rights from a sports league if it does something they do not like.

But more striking than this widespread anger was the words of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell about the corporate environment. “From electoral law to environmental awareness to radical social agendas to the Second Amendment, parts of the private sector continue to behave like a vigilant parallel government,” McConnell said in a statement on Monday. “Corporations will provoke serious consequences if it becomes a vehicle for the left-wing mob to hijack our country from outside the constitutional order.”

The swing of ‘consequences’ for private companies, as they believe it is decisions to maximize revenue, is a new tour for the Republican leader – and for a party whose flirtation with corporate responsibility is limited to, for example, a president who wants to deprive the legal protection of technology platforms because it has added fact-checking to its missions.

Even the use of corporate as a dirty word from Republicans is a recent development, and the setback of Delta, MLB, Coca-Cola and others against voting rights in Georgia is the latest in a series of incidents that have weakened relations between Republicans and the American business world . Democrats dominated spending ‘dark money’ in the 2020 election, and several companies froze a donation following the January 6 riot at the Capitol. The Chamber of Commerce, the business group that was once one of the most powerful supporters of the IDP, endorsed dozens of Democrats in the 2020 election and appears to be at stake politically. It all comes amid a changing electorate in which Democrats are recruiting more luxury voters, while Republicans are orienting their messages around a mistrust of powerful institutions that should appeal to the working class.

Congress itself is always a little behind the news, and the most powerful senior elected Republicans of the Republicans are still traditional conservatives for the business movement. But Indiana Representative Jim Banks, the newly installed chair of the Republican Study Committee, urged the party to complete its transformation and run with the “gift” that Donald Trump “gave to the Republican Party”: to “permanently replace the Party.” of the working class. ”

In a recent memo to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Banks wrote that Republicans must embrace the framework Trump has put forward: fierce opposition to both “illegal immigration and increased legal immigration,” free trade skepticism, “anti- “And opposition to corporate entities” whose leadership has decided to wage a culture war against working class values. “In the last line, Banks quotes Rubio as explaining why he supports Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama to” to establish a union.

The Rubio action, much like what we saw of this budding Republican cat to tackle corporate America, was ridiculous. He does not like Amazon’s cultural policy and does not like Jeff Bezos, and therefore he supports the effort of these units to organize at this one corporation. This is not a labor policy, and he shares no thoughts on other pressing federal issues revolving around Amazon, such as the insignificant tax contributions.

If Republicans want to target themselves as an anti-corporate party, there are more than just potters to complain about how a hypothetical multinational company bends to wake up leftists by, for example, scrapping the racist mascot of its ketchup brand. And there are some policy opportunities underway for Republicans to show a more meaningful breach of the party’s American ownership.

Unfortunately, the policy would require them to work with Joe Biden. The president, for example, proposed a $ 1 million broad infrastructure plan to be paid for by a partial refund of the corporate tax rate introduced by Republicans in 2017, a doubling of the corporate minimum tax introduced by Republicans, and a suppression of international tax havens. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, meanwhile, is working with allies to create a global minimum tax rate for corporate enterprises to stop the “race to the bottom” among countries that want to attract corporations. The Biden government separately wants to pass a law that raises the federal minimum wage for workers, a change that has not been made in 14 years due to a full Republican opposition. And if Republicans want to show that they are ready to break the backs of corporate monopolies that use their leverage to wage culture war, they can support some of Biden’s more contradictory candidates for Senate confirmation.

With a few errors here or there, Republicans in Congress do not go along with this, not just out of a dislike of cooperating with Democrats, but because they do not believe in what everything is meant to accomplish. They are still attached to the supply-side economy and the conservative movement, even after Trump showed how flexible Republican primary voters are in their commitment to small government and free markets. And while it’s a noticeable change, they allow themselves to rely on large corporations – job creators! – shouting, they limited the shouting to the culture war. Big corporations do not mind throwing liberals a PR measure for social justice because they know Republicans will always be there to protect their economic interests. When Republicans decide to break the link, we can have a real conversation about the war between them and American business.