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No, the GOP and the Dems Haven't Actually Swapped Brains
Republicans attacks on Big Business are as fake as their phony working-class act. But the paying audience loves the show and thats all that matters.
By CHARLES SYKES
04/11/2021 07:00 AM EDT
Charles Sykes is editor-at-large of the Bulwark.
Even after the lunacy of the past four years, the GOPs recent behavior is jaw-dropping, an extraordinary transformation that feels like the Republican Party has experienced some sort of bizarre brain swap.
After years as the pro-business party, Republicans have formed an anti-corporate chorus. Republicans who only recently railed about cancel culture, now loudly demand the cancellation of critics, opponents and politically incorrect foes. The GOPs enemies list now ranges from Major League Baseball, to Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, JPMorgan Chase, ViacomCBS, Citigroup, Cisco, UPS and Merck, not to mention state election officials who refused to help Donald Trump overturn the election, and the handful of sitting Republicans who had the temerity to vote to impeach him.
During the Trump era, weve already seen how Republicans who once embraced free trade are now committed protectionists. The party that insisted that character matters in the 1990s, decided that nothing mattered after Trump came along. Republicans cared deeply about deficits and debts ... until they lost interest. A party that prided itself on its patriotism has made its peace with a seditious insurrection, and now finds itself attacking the national pastime.
Its a head-shaking display of ideological malleability that seems like a rejection of every principle that conservatives held dear. The reality is that the GOPs working-class war against corporate America is neither a war, nor working class, nor especially anti-corporate. Like almost everything else in Republican politics these days, the GOP-corporate slap fight is more performative than substantive. And everyone involved knows it.
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No, the GOP and the Dems Haven't Actually Swapped Brains (Original Post)
DonViejo
Apr 2021
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rampartc
(5,407 posts)1. cancel culture? how about the "black list?"
the smothers brothers? the dixie chicks? the 2020 election?
Mopar151
(9,983 posts)2. You don't understand....
They are supposed to do to us, not be done to. The money is all theirs. It's God's will!
NOT!!!