It's all happened so quickly, it's been easy to miss the major implications of Republicans deciding that entities like Major League Baseball and Corporate America are now on the wrong side of their political fault lines.
For decades, Republicans have been the pro-business party—the party that backed every government policy that placed the needs of big business over the welfare of everyday Americans. In 2011, eventual GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney went so far as to argue that corporations are people and therefore raising taxes on them would be just like raising them on any other individual. At its core, the formulation both took a sympathetic view of giant corporations and crystalized the GOP's allegiance to protecting them from political backlash as they prioritized their bottom lines over the rights and livelihoods of American workers.
