The company’s embrace of the trans craze means that it must be taken out—fairly and through above-board market means.
Donald Trump Jr. says traditionalists and conservatives should give a pass to Anheuser-Busch for its recent transgender marketing push because, says Jr., the company supports Republican Party politicians and candidates.
Anheuser-Busch. “We looked into the political giving and lobbying history of Anheuser-Busch and guess what? They actually support Republicans,” he said on his podcast, Triggered.
[The company] totally sh** the bed with this Dylan Mulvaney thing. I’m not, though, for destroying an American, an iconic company for something like this.
Actually, if conservatives are serious about stopping the left’s cultural assault on childhood innocence and gender identity, then that is exactly what they must do: destroy Anheuser-Busch.
The company’s demise over its promotion of the trans craze would be a powerful deterrent to other companies that are thinking about foisting the left’s woke agenda on innocent and unsuspecting Americans. Otherwise traditionalists and conservatives will continue to lose ground, culturally.
Political Payoffs. Jr. makes a big deal over the fact that Anheuser-Busch gives about 6o percent of its political contributions to Republicans. “That’s literally almost unheard of in corporate America, where it’s really easy to go woke,” he argues.
Maybe, but 60 percent suggests that the company is essentially trying to have it both ways: by showering cash on both sides of the political aisle—something that is hardly unprecedented or unheard of in corporate America.
Roughly half (47 percent) of the $982.8 million in political campaign contributions made by the financial-services sector in the 2019-2020 period, for instance, went to Republicans; the other half (53 percent) went to Democrats, according to a report by a group called Americans for Financial Reform.
Jr.’s father did pretty much the same thing when he lived and worked in New York City. Trump Sr. gave big bucks to both Republicans and Democrats, including New York Senators Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer.
Woke Political Games. So let’s not be all that impressed by the fact that Anheuser-Busch plays the political game. Let’s be more worried about its embrace of the woke agenda—and, specifically, its promotion of transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney and Mulvaney’s assault on gender identity and childhood innocence.
National Review’s Caroline Downey reports that Anhesuer-Busch “has been woke longer than you think”—for decades, actually.
“A review of the company’s marketing efforts from over 30 years ago,” she writes, “suggests the partnership is just the latest episode in a long-running inclusivity-focused ad strategy” aimed at upending sexual norms.
Culture Drives Politics. The point is not which political candidates the company supports, but how it is polluting American culture and undermining youthful innocence. Culture drives politics. It always has.
Anheuser-Busch executives give money to politicians, just as Mafia bosses give money to the church. Sorry, but in both cases these payoffs do not negate or excuse illicit and sinful behavior—murder ordered by Mafia bosses and assaults on gender identity and youthful innocence sponsored by Anheuser-Busch executives, respectively.
For these reasons, contra Trump Jr., conservatives and traditionalists need to lay down a marker and set an example with Anheuser-Busch. The company needs to go belly-up in a big way from a dearth of sales and a loss of customers.
Let the woke chieftains of corporate America know there will be a heavy financial price to pay for foisting their political and cultural agenda upon America.
Then maybe they’ll think twice before using their vast financial resources and advertising dollars to effect a cultural revolution very few people want and certainly no one ever voted for.
Feature photo credit: Donald Trump Jr. and Dylan Mulvaney, courtesy of the New York Post.