“When Republicans, they get back into power, Apple and Disney need to understand one thing: Everything will be on the table,” Ingraham warned. Republicans in Congress have likewise tried to use antitrust enforcement and other government levers to punish companies whose public stances on voting rights or internal policies on content moderation they dislike. He did this through tax law, tariff policy and other proposed subsidies that chose winners and losers according to their political allegiances. Occasionally his fellow Republicans even called Trump out on these command-and-control, Soviet-style efforts to intervene in markets and curb free enterprise. Now his instincts have infected the rest of the right, from the Republicans in the federal government and Fox News on down.

Source: Washington Post April 07, 2022 14:25 UTC