Trump Republicans and Big Business Are Heading for Divorce

September 2, 2019 4 min read

As America’s favorite pundit, Forrest Gump, might put it, the Republican Party and big business go together like peas and carrots. Since its founding in 1854, the Grand Old Party has been pro-business — favoring a market-driven laissez-faire economy, big corporations and investors over social safety nets and laborers and women. The siren song of lower taxes and fewer regulations has always been enough to keep the Republicans and conservatives on board the good ship Capitalist Tool. After all, what’s good for General Motors is good for the country. (Younger people, feel free to substitute Amazon or Facebook for the no longer…...

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Jerry Bowles Jerry Bowles created co-founded Social Media Today in 2007 and is a regular contributor to the enterprise software analysis site, diginomica.com He is now a freelancer with more than 40 years of varied experience as a writer, editor, newspaperman, author, web publisher, and corporate communications director.