Romance Between Business and the Republican Party Hits the Rocks – By Tim Smart, Lauren Camera, and Susan Milligan (US News) / April 29, 2022
The party of business has turned on its benefactors.
Republican President Calvin Coolidge famously said that “the chief business of the American people is business.”
It was a slogan that nicely captured the relationship between the Grand Old Party and the American business community for much of the past 100 years.
But now, that relationship is soured as Republicans lash out at their corporate benefactors. The attacks range from taking on tech giants such as Facebook and Twitter over their canceling of conservative voices such as Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon to blasting old-line companies such as Coca-Cola and Delta over their criticism of restrictive voting laws.
But the most extreme example so far is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ canceling of Disney’s preferred status in the Sunshine State.
