The elites will do as they wish.
What this is about is the U.S. Chamber and the mega public companies that make up that organization flexing their muscle again. This is the same group of companies that continue to propagandize and lobby for the Chinese Communist Party in this country so that they can hopefully cash in on the mythical "China market."
Today's MNCs have no borders, and no loyalties except to their Directors and major shareholders. They would sell this country and the working citizens of it down the river without reflection.
Unfortunately, 80 percent of the GOP acts like the party of Rockefeller when big business comes calling - forgettiing that it is groups of working, right thinking Americans who came from families of working class Democrats that make up the core of their electoral support.