The concept of a âwokeâ culture is no longer just something being pushed on television, in academia, and in social media. We now live in an age where the woke ideals of the Left â focusing all our social, economic, and political energies on race, gender, and sexual preference â are becoming the norm. It would offer some comfort to think that the self-loathing, white-guilt, historically and socially ignorant movement that has emerged in recent years was just a passing fad, but that doesnât seem to be the case. Woke culture is on the march, and its goal is nothing short of subversion of the American way of life.
The Company You Keep: Top Brands Risk Reputation over ALEC Connection to Trump Phone Call
Jan 06, 2021
There they go again. The high-profile corporate lobbying organization ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council) has been on the receiving end of unwelcome attention over the past several years, costing it the membership of top brands like Coca-Cola, Amazon and McDonald’s. The decision to quit ALEC seems all the more prescient after last weekend, when a lawyer associated with the organization appeared to advise outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump on his attempt to overturn election results in Georgia.
Brand reputation trumps lobbying power
The Corporations Funding the End of Democracy
The GOP’s efforts to undermine our elections did not begin this week, and they were heavily subsidized by some of America’s best-known firms.
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What are we going to do about what’s happening in Congress today? If we’re honest with ourselves, most of us will do nothing. There are, granted, different varieties of nothing. And one of the privileges of being a political writer is that the varieties of nothing available for you to try are manifold.
A perennial favorite is the essay or column urging the Republican Party to come to reason. Trump may be on his way out, but this genre will be with us probably forever animated, as it is, by a seemingly boundless reserve of dishonesty. The Republican Party is wholly beyond redemption, and writers know it even if they aren’t willing to admit it to their readers or themselves. One can’t argue otherwise without employing distortions of reality that, while not as eg
Maverick super-loyalists to Donald Trump are set to make an audacious spectacle in Washington next week by voting against the formal counting of electoral college votes certifying Joe Biden’s victory. While the tactic by outliers won’t be enough to stop Biden becoming the 46th president, it will serve to disrupt Congress, bolster Trump and establish an acidic tone to political co-operation with the incoming Democratic administration. Two.
The looming spectacle comes despite the failure of Trumpâs legal team to win any of at least 40 lawsuits involving allegations of voter fraud in November, an election officials called the most secure in American history.
On Wednesday, Trump ally and Missouri Republican senator Josh Hawley announced he would object to certifying the electoral votes during the joint session on 6 January.
In an essay published Wednesday in the conservative commentary magazine The Blaze, editor Mark Levin backed up Hawley, claiming that states failed to follow their own election laws.
But in a conference call on Thursday, Senate majority leader and Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell reportedly said that his 6 January vote certifying Bidenâs victory will be âthe most consequential I have ever castâ.