Posted on 12/24/2020 8:05:50 AM PST by blam
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk told Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow that the conservative movement is now a “corporate-skeptic” and “pro-worker” movement thanks to President Donald Trump — and that it’s not going away.
“The conservative movement, thanks to Trump, is now a corporate-skeptic movement, a pro-worker movement, a free speech movement, a strict immigration movement,” said Kirk. “I don’t know where the kind of corporate Republicans have a home anymore.”
“And I think they’re really starting to realize it, legitimately,” he added.
Kirk spoke to Marlow during Turning Point USA’s sixth annual Student Action Summit on Monday.
“Mitt Romney said something super interesting over the weekend — which is that, ‘the Republican Party lost its soul and it’s not coming back any time soon.’ Yes, it lost the soul of your father’s party,” Kirk continued. “Your father’s party was the Wuhan party, where we sent our jobs to Wuhan, that was the Republican Party of Romney and Rockefeller.”
“And Trump comes along in only the way that Trump could, and challenged all of it,” said the TPUSA founder. “It’s actually poetic when you think about it. I don’t think the left will view it that way.”
Kirk continued:
But here’s the optimistic part. We are now in a post institutional age. People are more angry in institutions than ever before, because of the lockdowns, the damage of it, this CIA, the FBI, the foreign wars — now I think you’re going to see honest progressives like Glenn Greenwald and Breitbart all of the sudden agreeing that we should break up tech companies.
I actually think that there’s a lot of broad-based consensus that can now be around ending these endless wars, that can be around challenging corporate America and restoring a normal American way of life...
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People that worship business and despise anything to do with labor are idiots. Just as people who worship those who sell their labor, but despise business are also idiots.
Neither one can exist without the other other than sole proprietorships here and there.
A healthy society knows that..
If it were not for corporations and small businesses we all would be working the fields and scrounging for food and shelter.
If your employer pays the premium for you on a life insurance policy, they have to report this on your W-2 form as taxable income. The same goes for almost any other benefit you receive a that has a monetary value, like a company car or company-paid parking in a public lot or garage. There is no such requirement for medical insurance, which makes it one of the only types of compensation that is totally exempt from taxation in all forms. The employer can deduct the cost of providing this benefit on its books, and the employee does not have to report it as income.
” If we try going 3rd party (and thereby split the Republican vote), we play right into the hands of the Democrats, basically handing to them a decade of easy election victories.”
Maybe, maybe not. AN organized third party could give us a way to force the FORCE the Republicans to address our needs to get our vote. We need to face facts, the Republican party is hostile to the American people and normal culture. The only respect they show it is shallow and forced.
Maybe they need to learn this in a more structured way. If we had a third party, with a leader like Trump, that would give us and them a focal point. If the “leader” of our party said no dice, the republicans would be guaranteed to lose and we could focus on local races.
All the GOP would have to do to win is take the third party seriously and spread out the appointments after winning with our help.
Amen.
Corporations have proved themselves to be leftist pro CCP funders of Democrats, interested in open borders and H1B visas to hold down real Americans’ wages.
9 of the 10 richest Americans are purely Leftist Democrats. Musk is indecipherable at this point.
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Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens, Katie Pavlich and other 30 year olds like them need our fullest support.
They have a mighty task to undo the Marxist brainwashing done to their age group by our Kindergarten thru university educational system.
“””The majority of worker wealth in the United States is due to corporations... let’s not forget that.”””
Have you already forgotten the millions of dollars the Fortune 500 corporations gave to Black Lives Matter so the money could be used to remove Trump from office???
How many of those small business owners dream of becoming large business owners?
You're letting the American people off the hook. It wasn't just the regulations, it was mostly basic economics.
Sure, regulations add some cost but it's primarily the lower cost of labor that drove manufacturing offshore, and people (rationally) buy the lowest cost item that meets their needs.
Don't blame the government because Americans won't pay a premium to buy American.
“””How many of those small business owners dream of becoming large business owners?”””
How many of those small business owners dream of becoming large contributors to Black Lives Matter as the Fortune 500 Corporations in fact did in 2020?
“””Giant corporations are globalist in nature.”””
And these same giant, globalist corporations were more than eager to give millions of dollars in 2020 to Black Lives Matter so BLM could use to defeat Trump.
$1.3 billion I've read.
Conservative movement was always middle class, patriotic and religious.
It alliance oscillated between the oligarchs and the lower middle class. E.g. Teddy Roosevelt had similar support like Trump. Because of the globalism, the private industry trade unions were destroyed. So the former unionists and their likes were abandoned by the Democrats and they joined Conservative movement. On the other had the Oligarchs seem to like globalism so they joined liberals.
In summary, the core of conservatism did not move an inch, the “non core “ allies just switched.
If the Democratic party does not change, this will be a long term alliance.
So you favor payoffs and graft (the “aristocracy of pull”) as a way to run a business?
I support no government interference in private businesses in any form.
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