After DJT's election, one can assert there is a major war between between DJT's and MAGA's power and the commercial consumer market. For example, most consumers want to do something about global warming. DJT, MAGA and the carbon energy sector want to deny, distort or downplay the issue. So far, DJT, MAGA and the carbon energy sector simply ignore consumer sentiment and demand. Business as usual. That has been the case since the 1970s when most of the public became aware of environmental problems.
It's always important to specify what the "market" means or is. The market in the time of DJT in his 2nd term means first and foremost far more kleptocratic, authoritarian political power demand or pressure at the expense of consumer power. Consumers are mostly a diffuse, non-political commercial market power source. That is the reality.
A new reality is that DJT and MAGA now have far more power over Bezos, Zuckerberg and other billionaires and multi-millionaires than consumer's collective but diffuse power. That's why elites of commerce now owe and pay fealty to highly concentrated DJT and MAGA power. They have bended their knee and turned against democracy. In my opinion, that is inherent in unrestrained capitalism and capitalism under threat by sufficiently powerful authoritarianism.
Nowadays, resistance to DJT and MAGA imposes risks on highly wealthy people and huge corporations. The risks also extend to many non-elites who are exposed to serious damage from kleptocratic authoritarian threats, e.g., federal employees. For the elites, the risks are loss of most or all of their wealth and power from a corrupt authoritarian American regime and government. To protect their wealth and power, capitalist elites and big businesses have no choice but to betray consumers and democracy. These are the new realities of the American capitalism game. Maybe it has been significantly that way for years. But is is definitely overwhelmingly that way now.
Opinions about this will obviously vary widely. These are my mine.
