The GOP and big business are headed for a messy divorce

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Opinion | JamesSurowiecki: Republicans were not ready to lose corporate America to younger progressives. - MSNBCDaily

of Florida made the quid pro quo explicit when he told big business: “If you’re going to stick your beak into issues that don’t directly concern you, then I think elected officials are then going to stick their beak into issues that may not concern them.”Some Republicans have done more than talk. After Delta Airlines came out against the Georgia law, the Georgia House of Representatives voted to eliminate a tax break worth millions to Delta.

While Republican politicians are certainly trying to keep the party's base happy, their warnings to corporate America are not just a put-up job. Instead, they reflect the very real dilemma that the GOP establishment now finds itself confronting thanks to the rise of “,” which is putting serious stress on the traditional Republican alliance between big business and white social conservatives.

But for years now, that marriage has looked increasingly fragile. “Woke capitalism” didn’t start with the fight over voting rights. It goes back at least to 2015-16, when corporations used their economic power to get states to kill or revise anti-LGBTQ laws . When North Carolina passed such a law, more than 80 companies signed a public letter urging that the ordinance be repealed, and companies like PayPal said they were canceling plans to invest in the state. That law was soon revised.

Put simply, the problem for the establishment GOP is that when it comes to social issues, the interests and positions of most big corporations are now in direct opposition to the views of the GOP base. And the fascinating question is: Where do Republicans go from here?

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