Among the many, many things to love about how Donald Trump reshaped the Republican Party is that we are no longer the party of Big Business. Seems like a weird legacy for a billionaire, but here we are.
For decades, Republicans championed corporate America because it was the right thing to do. Cutting taxes and regulations in the 1980s spurred the wealth and technological innovation of the 1990s. But for everything we did for Big Business, the deeper we got into the 21st century, the less it seemed they wanted to return the favor.
GOP policy for the last 50 years has been to do what is good for the economy writ large, however Big Business seems to only want to do what is good for them. That isn’t to say
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