The Republican Party Is a Vehicle for the Wealthy

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I just don't think that it's possible to easily realign the Republican Party there are shining little exceptions I actually wouldn't name Tom Cotton although I respect Senator Cotton. The power base of the party is not even a certainly large corporations, which you can deal with if you want to build a kind of class compromise It's the small time rich or the petit bourgeois to use a different term. But they need economic justice and the party will never come to serve them for both cultural and for these kind of class based reasons.

Sohrab Ahmari is a writer, commentator, and the founding editor of Compact. He is the author of Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty–and What to Do About It.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Sohrab Ahmari discuss the threat corporate power poses to individual freedom in the United States; whether liberalism has gone too far in prioritizing individual autonomy over the common good; and why they disagree about whether attempting to move beyond liberalism would make things better or worse.

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