Left held our businesses hostage. Now it wants to punish those that escaped
The same politicians who spent years commanding companies to advance leftist ideology now want to punish those companies for simply opting out.A progressive group’s 182-page blueprint, obtained and reported by Fox News, maps out a sweeping agenda for Democratic investigations into companies that have declined to join the radical left’s political war on the Trump administration and have instead tried to work with it, or simply stay out of the fight.Maryland Democrat Rep.Jamie Raskin, the expected chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has been equally blunt.
He has vowed that Democrats "will not hesitate to go after the private corporations that are collaborating in all of the lawlessness with Donald Trump," and he has singled out law firms that "capitulated" or "surrendered," including those that ended DEI programs as part of agreements with the administration.‘LAWYER UP’: DEMS IMMEDIATELY PUT TRUMP ON NOTICE AMID REPUBLICANS' MIDTERM BLOODBATHThis is not routine oversight.It is political retribution dressed up as "accountability." And the hypocrisy is impossible to miss.Rep.
Jamie Raskin, D-Md., speaks to reporters outside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office in Washington, D.C., on July 22, 2021.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)For years, Raskin and his allies have described corporate America as the victim of Trump-era coercion.
Yet the moment companies begin refusing progressive political demands by dumping activist scorecards, dialing back DEI mandates or simply declining to serve as instruments of social reengineering, Raskin announces plans to coerce them himself through subpoenas, hearings and the full power of a House majority.The message is clear: companies may participate in the left’s agenda, but they may not be allowed to walk away from it.DEMOCRAT IMMEDIATELY THREATENS SUBPOENAS FOR TECH EXECUTIVES IN WAKE OF MIDTERMSThat agenda has been years in the making.
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