{"id":1638987,"date":"2022-09-12T09:36:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T13:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1638987"},"modified":"2022-09-12T09:36:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T13:36:21","slug":"desantis-blasts-corporatism-elitism-and-gops-soft-approach-to-big-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-blasts-corporatism-elitism-and-gops-soft-approach-to-big-business\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Blasts Corporatism, Elitism, and GOP\u2019s Soft Approach to Big Business"},"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%2Fdesantis-blasts-corporatism-elitism-and-gops-soft-approach-to-big-business%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=1638987&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--><p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said in a speech at the National Conservatism Conference in Miami, on Sept. 11, that Republicans have been too soft on big business and that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-gop\">GOP<\/a> shouldn\u2019t shy away from taking on major corporations if it means advancing conservative aims and defending American values.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis has taken a range of actions that involve pushing back on progressive policies in the workplace, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/desantis-signs-stop-woke-act_4421759.html\">including signing<\/a> the \u201cStop WOKE Act,\u201d which seeks to combat \u201cwoke indoctrination\u201d in Florida schools and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican governor has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/florida-gov-desantis-blames-disney-for-kowtowing-to-china-despite-atrocities_4442751.html\">called out<\/a> Disney\u00a0for profiting off of China while ignoring Beijing\u2019s long-existing human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/florida-gov-desantis-signs-bill-to-dissolve-disney-worlds-private-government_4421610.html\">also dissolved<\/a> Walt Disney World\u2019s self-governing status in central Florida after the company issued a critical statement about the Parental Rights in Education bill that DeSantis backed, which banned teachers from instructing about sexual orientation and gender identity topics to children under the third grade.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, in his hourlong speech at the National Conservatism Conference\u00a0at the JW Marriott Miami Turnberry Resort, DeSantis said that his experiences in taking a stand against progressivism in schools and businesses provide lessons for how conservatives can challenge the power of corporations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of these big companies are now exercising quasi-public power,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCorporatism is not the same as free enterprise, and I think too many Republicans have viewed limited government to basically mean whatever is best for corporate America is how we want to do the economy,\u201d DeSantis continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019m doing is using government to give space to the individual citizen to be able to participate in society, to be able to speak his or her mind. And I think that\u2019s an absolutely appropriate use of government power,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>While DeSantis said he continues to view free enterprise as the \u201cbest economic system,\u201d he said it should be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said in a speech at the National Conservatism Conference in Miami, on Sept. 11, that Republicans have been too soft on big business and that the GOP shouldn\u2019t shy away from taking on major corporations if it means advancing conservative aims and defending American values. 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