{"id":1421435,"date":"2022-04-06T08:17:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T12:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421435"},"modified":"2022-04-06T08:17:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T12:17:57","slug":"no-future-for-corporate-simps-how-the-gop-can-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-future-for-corporate-simps-how-the-gop-can-fight-back\/","title":{"rendered":"No Future For Corporate Simps: How The GOP Can Fight Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fno-future-for-corporate-simps-how-the-gop-can-fight-back%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421435&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Mickey-Mouse.-Brickset.-Flickr.-e1649198030635.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt just seems like he\u2019s fighting on everything every day,\u201d went the frequent Republican lament when President Donald Trump was in office.<\/p>\n<p>And there were fights on everything, every day: In high school and gym locker rooms; in Major League Baseball, the National Football League, and on ESPN; with Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood; with CEOs from Mark Cuban to Bob Iger.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t Trump, of course. We\u2019ve all since learned this. Because if it had been, we wouldn\u2019t still be hearing about pundits and satire sites kicked off of platforms for calling out a man on a women\u2019s swim team.<\/p>\n<p>If it had just been Trump all along, cities and states wouldn\u2019t still be boycotted by professional sporting events.<\/p>\n<p>If it had been the mean old Donald, we wouldn\u2019t be deluged daily still by woke corporations, tech censorship, and Hollywood meltdowns.<\/p>\n<p>If it had been all about 45, executives across The Walt Disney Company would not still be caught using theme parks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/disney-drops-ladies-and-gentlemen-boys-and-girls-from-its-park-greetings-in-move-to-be-more-gender-inclusive-192522537.html\">to erase gender<\/a>, using children\u2019s cartoons to push a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1508912865293619202\">\u201cnot-at-all secret gay agenda,\u201d<\/a> and promising war with elected representatives who stand in their way.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is the left-wing\u2019s culture war is relentless. And given their near-complete control of the commanding heights, it might seem we\u2019re hopelessly outgunned.<\/p>\n<p>But they do have a weak point: For decades, Americans have generously carved out privileges, incentives, and exceptions for those companies and institutions that we felt served our people\u2019s and our country\u2019s interests. It\u2019s time to stop.<\/p>\n<p>Republican politicians, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/29\/conservatives-as-revolutionaries-how-to-fight-when-youre-an-alien-in-your-own-land\/\">however<\/a>, aren\u2019t used to this kind of fighting. They\u2019d rather cite Ronald Reagan as we slip slowly under corporate rule, but that won\u2019t do at all.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to act. It\u2019s time to fix it.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Enemy Is In Our Trenches<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Far from some kind of hypothetical, or some kind of Trump phenomenon, the culture war is upon us; it rages in every single aspect of liberal society \u2014 the home, the church, our businesses, and our government.<\/p>\n<p>While there are hopeful signs of Americans (and even some politicians) waking up, the open enemies of Christian morality, traditional values, the nuclear family, masculine and feminine virtues, and Western Civilization are already in our trenches. <\/p>\n<p>We need to fight; and we can. Let\u2019s start with their wallets.<\/p>\n<p>Why, you might reasonably ask, does Congress shovel $45 billion into universities every year? Certainly not for the students or taxpayers, who are burdened with debt while these leftwing-activist factories raise tuition year after year. Every time the vote comes up, though, it comes and goes without so much as a peep from the GOP. Next year, they might well have the power to end this.<\/p>\n<p>Why, you might reasonably ask, are red-state public schools permitted to spend taxpayer money on diversity, inclusion, and equity bureaucracies? It\u2019s clear these programs pay large salaries, but how do they benefit children? Parents and the politicians they elect have the power of the purse, and can wield it to put an end to these programs.<\/p>\n<p>Why, you might reasonably ask, is our long-partisan corporate media shielded from accountability by wild precedents like New York Times v. Sullivan, which found the paper was allowed to print damaging lies about local police leaders just because they were \u201cpublic figures\u201d? Our political leaders can craft laws to protect the citizenry from libel, while also protecting our First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>Why, you might reasonably ask, are corporations protected by limited liability, while individuals and partnerships are not? When corporate gambles go awry, their executives don\u2019t lose their homes. The little guys, however? The ones who sponsor local sports teams instead of threatening local governments? They do. This is a direct function of decisions Congress has made \u2014 and can unmake.<\/p>\n<p>Why, you might reasonably ask, is labor taxed so much higher than capital? Has American finance shouldered a patriotic responsibility to protect the working and middle classes, or has it exported the works of American hands abroad for profit? Well, there\u2019s a disconnect somewhere: In 2020, for example, the S&#038;P 500 went up 16 percent while our GDP went down. Our lawmakers did this; they can do undo it, too.<\/p>\n<p>And why is The Walt Disney Company continuously protected from copyright expirations? The original reasoning was to protect American children\u2019s favorite characters from being used to spread sexual or degenerate messaging. Today, Disney executives <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1509597162631401500\">outright<\/a> promise to include this sort of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1508926408332034049\">messaging<\/a>. Congress need not extend these special protections when Mickey Mouse\u2019s copyright comes back up in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The above is just one of many sweetheart deals that have been cut for Disney. Another in the news is their ability to avoid local zoning ordinances for their Florida theme parks. It\u2019s a perk not given to other local companies that was extended to Disney because Walt himself promised to build a childhood wonderland in swampland, bringing millions of jobs and tourists to a sleepy part of central-southern Florida.<\/p>\n<p>He did that, but that was then. Today, the patriotic dreamer who founded Disney is long gone. In the years since, his corporate successors have perverted those dreams, and turned on the very Floridians they operate amongst, demanding the state\u2019s youngest children be instructed on sex, transgenderism, and a host of other depravities. Why should the old zoning deal continue? Gov. Ron DeSantis asked that very question this week.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Attack<\/strong> <strong>Of  The Capitulators<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>His suggestion, however, came under immediate attack from the outgoing Republican governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, who told CNN that Florida\u2019s attempt to protect its children was \u201cabsurd,\u201d and that by standing against a multinational corporation, DeSantis was abusing his authority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeSantis,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TB3_K_gI5f8\">he told CNN<\/a>, \u201cis always talking about he was not demanding that businesses do things, but he was telling the cruise lines what they had to do, he was telling local schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a common refrain we\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/16\/if-republicans-are-worth-their-salt-theyll-block-invasive-vaccine-passports\/\">heard<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/07\/20\/corporations-are-steamrolling-small-business-buying-up-homes-and-crushing-the-dream-but-we-can-fight-back\/\">from<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/19\/covid-databases-are-among-us-and-the-right-must-fight-and-win-now-or-never\/\">weak-kneed<\/a> Republican governors across the country, from Arkansas\u2019 Asa Hutchinson to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lifeisdriving\/status\/1511390828496769028?s=21\">Utah\u2019s Spencer Cox<\/a> to Hogan: \u201cWe,\u201d they declare, \u201care unwilling to protect our most vulnerable citizens from Big Business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to \u201cfairness\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/governor.utah.gov\/2022\/03\/24\/gov-cox-why-im-vetoing-hb11\/\">\u201ccommission[s] of experts,\u201d<\/a> they\u2019ll even cite Ronald Reagan (who is conveniently unavailable to refute the slander).<\/p>\n<p>To these Republicans, defending travel industry passengers and employees from deeply intrusive federal demands isn\u2019t conservative. To these Republicans, protecting young children from mask mandates, novel medical experiments, and indoctrination is somehow \u201coverreach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI go back to William Buckley,\u201d Hutchinson infamously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=01Hry1rJn7w\">claimed<\/a> in defense of corporate child-genital mutilation, \u201cI go back to Ronald Reagan, the principles of our party, which believes in a limited role of government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Far from going back to anything, these stooges slouch forward toward oligarchy.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not surprising, though. Republicans aren\u2019t used to fighting back against corporations, and most don\u2019t have the talking points \u2014 or stomach \u2014 for it. They\u2019d rather do their corporate friends favors.<\/p>\n<p>The American people, however, don\u2019t get much for these deals; and we\u2019re tired of it. And once we realize how our situation can be undone, we\u2019ll know where to look for action.<\/p>\n<p>But it won\u2019t be to those who\u2019d sell our self-rule and our culture out in the name of principles they\u2019re unwilling to defend. There\u2019s no future for corporate simps.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Christopher Bedford is a senior editor at The Federalist, a founding partner of RightForge, the host of &#8220;Culture War,&#8221; vice chairman of Young Americans for Freedom, a board member at The Daily Caller News Foundation and National Journalism Center, and the author of &#8220;The Art of the Donald.&#8221; His work has been featured in The American Mind, National Review, the New York Post and the Daily Caller, where he led the Daily Caller News Foundation and spent eight years. A frequent guest on Fox News and Fox Business, he was raised in Massachusetts and lives on Capitol Hill. Follow him on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBedfordDC\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt just seems like he\u2019s fighting on everything every day,\u201d went the frequent Republican lament when President Donald Trump was in office. 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