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Amazon Says Goodbye to Seattle: Tesla Says Goodbye to California
The left coast is bleeding businesses and residents. What is driving them out?
“If a liberal is a conservative who has been arrested, a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged,” opined the seminal writer and NYT journalist Tom Wolfe- long before anyone had heard of Amazon, to say nothing of Tesla.
There is little question that the politics of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla mastermind Elon Musk run towards the progressive end of the spectrum. On social issues, the two influential job creators are likely in lockstep with the Democratic Party.
There is little possibility either will find common cause with the socially conservative wing of the Republican Party. But there is another breed of conservative in the Republican Party, one far more numerous, though unfortunately not as vociferous; the socially liberal fiscal conservative.
Musk and Amazon may be learning that you can agree with Democrats on every social and cultural issue, including but not limited to abortion, open borders, and universal public income and still think they do a poor job managing the economy or passing pro-business, pro-growth legislation.
In fact, the “GOP is Now Viewed as Better Party for Security, Prosperity,” according to recent polls by Gallup. But…