Can the Right Fight Corporate Power?

Oh, here we go. A duly elected state legislature has enacted a law expressing the popular will, and the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to stop the measure being implemented. So, naturally, several large corporations have declared war on the state and its democracy, with the New York Times goading more firms to join the fray. Don’t hold your breath waiting for the timid bulk of the GOP to stand up to this managerial bullying.

I’m referring, of course, to the corporate revolt against Texas’s new pro-life law, Senate Bill 8, proscribing most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The prospect of its implementation drew the ire of several local tech companies, including Austin-based Bumble and Dallas-based Match. “Bumble is woman-founded and women-led, and from day one we’ve stood up for the most vulnerable,” said Bumble in an Instagram statement vowing to fight S.B. 8 (the vulnerability of the preborn human being threatened by scissors and suction tubes was lost on a firm that facilitates random hookups).

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