You’re a successful businessman, and you’ve always voted Republican. Why? It isn’t because the economy performs better under the GOP, because that simply isn’t true. It isn’t primarily because the inevitable tax cuts help your bottom line, although you are certainly grateful for them. No, it is because you view yourself as the rugged individual–a job-creating superman–who makes the American economy go. It was you–not Donald Trump, let alone some wacko wearing a Viking outfit in the Capitol–who made America great. Unlike the Democrats, the Republicans understood this. They showed you the deference you deserved.
But things are changing. A large part of the GOP is now at war with “woke capital.” They think business is the enemy. They believe businessmen are only entitled to free speech if they say and do the right things.
So, what do you do now? Do you shut up and make money, or defend your constitutional rights? We’ll see.