Republican donors – including those who had said they’d never support Trump again after Jan. 6 — believe the current regulatory climate for businesses is also an existential danger. Kathy Wylde, president and CEO of the Partnership for New York City — a nonprofit organization representing the city’s top business leaders — said Republicans have conveyed to her that they consider that “the threat to capitalism from the Democrats is more concerning than the threat to democracy from Trump.”
Republicans have conveyed to her that they consider that “the threat to capitalism from the Democrats is more concerning than the threat to democracy from Trump.”
Does he mean the threat of booming stock market highs practically every day? Or the threat that unemployment will be too low? How come these people are so out of touch with reality?
That’s because their personal concern about democracy is zero. Zero concern. They have money and power, they don’t need democracy. The threat that the store down the road will be closed when they want to buy tic-tacs is more concerning to them than Trump’s threat to democracy.
They have money and power, they don’t need democracy.
That’s somewhat shortsighted, as the money is heavily predicated on a functioning economy and the power is heavily predicated on a functioning industry. Countries without democracy have historically lagged in both categories, with the client states of large industrial democratic states being the primary exception.
Never underestimate hubris.
Wait, the threat to capitalism from the modern Democratic Party, which is a bunch of weak-kneed neoliberal do-nothings, is worse than the threat of fascism from a guy who said he’s willing to use the power of the state to punish enemies?
Ask the Russian oligarchs that fell down stairs, out of windows, ran into mysterious rains of bullets and/or drank radioactive tea how they feel about selling out democracy for profit.
Oh wait, you can’t ask them.
These nitwits don’t realize that even if they’re not the first line in Niemoller’s poem, they’ll at best be the last.
These nitwits don’t realize that even if they’re not the first line in Niemoller’s poem, they’ll at best be the last.
Better to reign in Hell than pay taxes in Heaven.
weak-kneed neoliberal do-nothings
I’d love a government that did nothing.
They don’t fucking care. This is the Business Plot, Round 2.
Businesses supporting convicted felon Donald Trump. Who didn’t have this on their bingo card?
Businesses supporting a convicted business fraudster, no less…
Democrats support a freer market than Republicans do, since Republicans want a government that can&will punish businesses for disagreeing with them politically.
Republican business people really don’t want a free market. They hate that Biden’s gone after them for being noncompetitive. That’s what they perceive as the threat
