In the nearly 15 months since the Capitol insurrection, some major corporations have backtracked significantly on their pledge to deny campaign funding to the 147 members of Congress who voted against certification of the 2020 presidential election result. Just to be clear: 147 members of Congress deliberately sought to undermine American democracy and subvert a legitimate presidential election to advance then-President Donald Trump’s lie that the election was stolen.
Those members deserved pariah status back then, and they still deserve it today. But some corporations that jumped on the bandwagon of national outrage after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection have apparently had second thoughts. Maybe subverting democracy wasn’t such a bad thing after all. Or maybe advancing their corporate interests (translation: greed) is more important than maintaining a principled stand.
The same holds true for major corporations still doing business in Russia despite that country’s war crimes and wanton destruction in Ukraine. Hundreds of companies answered the call to shut down their operations in Russia to make dictator Vladimir Putin rethink his invasion. But for others? Meh.
