Christy Walton, daughter-in-law of Walmart founder Sam Walton and part-heir to the Walmart fortune, placed a full-page ad in the New York Times urging Americans to attend the "No Kings Day" protests on June 14, and engage in civic discourse and speak to officials at town halls. Now MAGA fans are fur...
Seems the overton window has shifted far enough to the right that walmart execs are now what counts as the left.
I might be mixing her up with someone else, but I think she’s a progressive activist and has never been involved in running the company. She’s not an exec, she’s an heiress.
Shhh, don’t let the MAGAs hear this. It’s hilarious.
I mean, I’m honestly not surprised. I’ve been waiting for the billionaire class to rise up against Trump for a while now. If Trump were a competent autocrat, I’d be more worried, since they might all start competing for his favor in order to reap the benefits of crony capitalism. But the honeymoon is over, and Trump is very clearly extremely incompetent and toxic for business. He is scaring and deporting their low wage labor, tanking their stock prices and lowering profits with his tarrifs, and destabilizing potential international business deals with his erratic style of governing. Their increasing discontent with the current administration will drive cooperation rather than competition among them, and they will use their sizeable resources to neuter the administration.
A king can only rule so long as the court supports him.