"I mean, certainly there are organized boycotts, and we've seen that, for example, around corporations repealing their DEI policies and stuff. There's been some organized boycotts along those lines this year since Trump has been pressuring corporations to do that. But I think that we should think about economic power more broadly. I mean, you look at the Kimmel fiasco, right?"
"Like the Brendan Carr and the Trump administration eventually proclaimed they had not done all the things that they had done to try to get Jimmy Kimmel taken off the air for being a Trump critic. But that was only after the institutions, the public facing and for-profit institutions they were trying to act through were pressured by the American people into changing their minds."
Organized boycotts and consumer pressure have been used to push back against corporate actions tied to support for Donald Trump, including demands to repeal DEI policies. Economic power can work broadly when customers and the public contact companies, prompting media and for-profit institutions to change course. Public-facing corporations such as ABC, Disney, Nexstar and Sinclair respond to consumer feedback, even when pressured by political actors. Boycotts and other economic tactics are part of protests like No Kings, and historical examples show collective consumer action can produce concrete institutional reversals and consequences.
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