Alex Browne is a writer specializing in political economy and the history of ideas.

December 2, 2024

Analysis

Class Cleavages

The irrationality of American business partisanship is a symptom of its own success

Within the American business lobby, it seems there is no classwide consensus about the direction of the country’s future. The large blocs of organized money that found Trump a threat to democratic institutions in 2021 evidently no longer do—proposals once…