Following The Money

 As Democrats in Congress try and force Republicans to put their country before their party, there is another effort underway to force accountability on Trump and the Trumpists on the GOP. 

Private companies across the spectrum are taking actions to restrict Trump and Trumpists rhetoric and platforms. Cumulus Media, who employ Trumpists like Mark Levin and Dan Bongino, have told them to knock off the rhetoric that the election is fraudulent or else lose their jobs. Amazon shutdown Parler's webhosting, as the Apple story stopped distributing it. 

Quite a few Fortune 500 companies have said they will stop giving contributions to politicians that verbally supported the Cracker Barrel Putsch. 

I watched a panel of historians talk about Trump's efforts to subvert faith in our nation's elections. I was largely unimpressed with their arguments (they were fairly well trod paths). They spent some time talking about how the GOP is basically rooted in overturning the New Deal. I think that's right and wrong. The modern "Conservative Movement" arose out of opposition to the New Deal, but they never had the votes. People really liked the New Deal.  You may have heard of FDR; people liked him. 

What gave the "Conservative Movement" the juice to come to life was the Democratic Party's embrace of civil rights and social goods for minorities. When Democrats became the party of "women's libbers" and Black Panthers and Jane Fonda, there was an opening to peel away New Deal Democrats. They then aligned those with socially conservative suburbanites in the Sun Belt to create the Reagan Coalition. 

At some point, those suburbanites moved left on social issues. Many still purport to be "fiscally conservative," but fiscal conservatism is really "don't give public goods to Black people." This was the beginning of the Obama Coalition of People of Color, Millennials, and the Professional Class.

The movement of the Professional Class into the Democratic Party has been decried by Leftists and "Socialists" who want a working class party, like FDR had. But having the financial power of the Professional Class on your side means that there are a lot more levers to influence public policy. 

I doubt that Mike Pence invokes the 25th Amendment, in which case the House will impeach him. I doubt there are enough votes in the Senate to remove him, but who knows. 

So far, aside from becoming the first president to be impeached twice, Trump's biggest consequence has been from the rejection of him, his politics and his party by the Professional Class. 

That seems important.