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If you want to push back against Trump's extreme acts, there's often a long game as well as a short game to be played.

The Heritage Foundation's strategy seems to be to try to ram through radical changes as quickly as possible.

The hope is that by doing a number of extreme acts in a short space of time, the public and the media will be overwhelmed.

And, with a constant bombardment, the public and media will move on to the latest outage, forgetting what came before.

Meanwhile, many major corporations have gone all-in on replacing diversity, equity, and inclusion with prejudice, cronyism, and nepotism.

They include McDonald's, Walmart, Target, Amazon, Meta, Ford, Disney, Google, GM, GE, Pepsi, Intel, PayPal, Chipotle, Comcast, 3M, Regeneron, and Philip Morris. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5288947/trump-dei-disney-pepsi-diversity

They hope much if the public will move on quickly to the next Trump outrage, and forget about their complicity.

But.

What if the public chooses not to?

What if, in 6 months, in 12 months, in 2 years, their corporations are still called Trump collaborators and white supremists?

What if there's protests against them in 6 months? If blog and social media posts still refer to this in 2 years?

If their IWD LinkedIn posts get 100 angry replies?

If the backlash to their complicity doesn't go away quickly, what would they do?