The Fake Conservative Turn Against Corporations

Adam Serwer: “Republicans cannot imagine labor relations as exploitative except in that someone might have to sit through a tedious video on race or gender sensitivity in the workplace. They do not perceive the concentration of corporate power as perilous unless companies’ desire to retain their customer base interferes with Republican schemes to entrench their own political dominance. They see freedom of speech as vital, unless it prevents them from using the state to sanction forms of political expression they oppose. Their criticisms of ‘woke capital’ go no deeper than this.”

“As such, the Republican anti-corporate turn is entirely superficial.”