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DOI: 10.4324/9781003223320-5

On July 24, 2020, Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., tweeted ‘We will coup anywhere we want. Get used to it.’ On January 6, 2021, President Trump openly encouraged an assault on the US Congress to interrupt confirmation of the election of the Democratic party ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Weeks later, the measures of voter exclusion approved by the Georgia State Legislature engendered censure, first by the executives of multinational corporations headquartered in the state, then, on April 14, 2021, by hundreds of chief executive officers of American corporations as featured in The New York Times. The new political cleavages of corporate America are beyond the scope of this ...

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