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Family Capitalism and the Small Business Insurrection
Family Capitalism and the Small Business Insurrection The growing militancy of the Republican right is less about an alliance of small business against big business than it is an insurrection of one form of capitalism against another: the private, unincorporated, and family-based versus the corporate, publicly traded, and shareholder-owned. Melinda Cooper ▪ Winter 2022 Donald Trump delivers remarks at a meeting with small businesspeople at the White House on January 30, 2017. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) For much of the 2016 presidential campaign, progressive commentators struggled to comprehend the foundations of Trump’s popular support. Many…