Great-Kazoo
02-05-2021, 11:56
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain?inspired by the summer?s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests?in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump's assault on democracy.
There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain?inspired by the summer?s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests?in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump's assault on democracy.