Why Corporate America Is Acting ‘Vaguely Liberal’

Kevin Drum: “The bottom line, so to speak, is that in the past the business community stayed in its lane and didn’t worry much about the social conservative wing of the Republican Party. But now they feel like it’s out of control and bad for business.”

“Like it or not, big corporations have mostly adopted the vaguely liberal ‘responsible citizen’ attitude of the majority of Americans, namely that climate change is bad; diversity is good; mass killings are bad; immigration is good; trade wars are bad; trans people are good; and so forth. This is the corporate persona that they actively promote in their advertising, and they do it because their market research says this is what most people want.”