![]() ![]() Corporations consider it good for their brand, and for business, to cater to younger consumers (and their own younger employees) that tend to embrace social liberalism and the latest fashionable causes. Meanwhile, as cultural issues have gained prominence, the priorities and constituencies of business and the GOP have diverged. As this shift has occurred, business leaders who once seemed natural allies began to look more like part of the elite that conservatives distrust and disdain. The party has obviously become more populist and working class over time, a change exemplified by Donald Trump. And there is a real political upside for the GOP in this new dynamic, which should make it easier for it to rebut the charge it is simply a tool of big business that has dogged it at least since the days of Herbert Hoover. But now the two sides are entering a period of active hostilities. The Washington Post ran an interview titled, “Here’s the history of how big business lost control of the GOP,” back in 2013. That relationship, once a key element of the GOP coalition, has been under strain for quite some time. Even if Disney ends up retaining the district in some form, the lightning-fast strike by the Legislature feels like an inflection point in the relationship of the Republican Party to big business. ![]()
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