Corporatism: Another Tentacle Of Mainstream Republicanism

In Alabama Race, a Test of Business Efforts to Derail Tea ... With only days to go before a special Republican primary runoff for Congress here in South Alabama, the national business lobby is going all in ... In the first test of its post-government-shutdown effort to derail Tea Party candidates, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce put on a rally on Tuesday in the warehouse of an aluminum plant to show its support for Bradley Byrne, a lawyer and former Republican officeholder. Companies as diverse as Caterpillar and AT&T have also sent in a last-minute flurry of donations. The goal, backers of Mr. Byrne said, is to elect not just a Republican, but the right kind of pro-business one. – The New York Times 

Dominant Social Theme: The Tea Party is radical and must be defeated at the polls. Republicans unite! 

Free-Market Analysis: There was a brief moment when Ron Paul was breaking away from the field and was even threatening Mitt Romney several months before the convention. Then all hell broke loose. Ron Paul reps were beaten up and various rule changes were rushed through benefitting Romney and the Republican establishment. Now the proverbial other shoe has dropped. What was seen by many in the libertarian movement to be a Republican Party machine enterprise has revealed itself as only part of something much larger. As we can see from the above article excerpt, it is the US business community that forms yet another tentacle of anti-republicanism in the US.

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