.MaddowBlog: It’s not just Florida Republicans who are ready to punish Disney for daring to make criticisms.
Rep. Lauren Boebert tried to send a rhetorical shot across Disney’s bow this week, though she struggled a bit with the details.
The article noted that in recent decades, Disney lobbyists have successfully secured a couple of copyrights extensions, including an 1998 effort that was so uncontroversial on Capitol Hill that it cleared both chambers of the Republican-led Congress on voice votes, and was signed into law by a Democratic president.
It is not because GOP lawmakers have suddenly discovered deeply held concerns over copyright extensions as they relate to intellectual property law. On the contrary, the resistance is the result of the Republicans’ culture war — and the degree to which they see Disney as an opponent in the larger social conflict.
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, for example, told National Review that Disney “seems to now have given in to the woke mob.” There’s no great mystery as to how congressional conservatives have arrived at such a conclusion. Florida Republicans approved what some have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” policy, and Disney — a major force in the Sunshine State — eventually criticized the GOP’s anti-LGBTQ measure., Florida Republicans and their allies wasted no time making plans to retaliate against the company for daring to say something uncomplimentary. In fact, as GOP Gov.
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