Politics & Power Quote by Marjorie Taylor Greene

Greene’s line is less an argument than a diagnostic of how power works in her political universe: corporations aren’t just responding to markets or public pressure; they’re submitting to a rival regime. “Folding” frames companies as weak bodies collapsing under force. “Basically what the Democrats want” intentionally blurs any distinction between policy, culture, consumer preference, and reputational risk, turning a messy set of incentives into a single partisan command. Then she lands on the most loaded phrase in the sentence: “kissing the ring.”

That metaphor does two jobs at once. It casts Democrats as a mafia don or monarch, implying illegitimate authority and coercion. It also recruits the listener into a shared posture of refusal: we don’t kiss rings. In a movement that’s long complained about “elite” capture, Greene flips the script by positioning corporate America as a kind of hostage class, trapped by liberal power. The subtext isn’t pro-corporate; it’s anti-compliance. She’s not defending boardrooms so much as attacking the idea that institutions should perform deference to progressive norms, whether on diversity initiatives, climate pledges, LGBTQ policies, or election-related controversies.

Contextually, this tracks with the post-Trump right’s governing aesthetic: politics as loyalty testing. When companies echo Democratic priorities, Greene treats it as a ritual act of submission, not a calculation. The intent is to delegitimize corporate statements as coerced propaganda and to justify retaliation - boycotts, hearings, regulation, “anti-woke” laws - as counter-sovereignty rather than censorship. In one phrase, she turns brand positioning into a culture-war oath ceremony and invites her audience to see themselves as the only faction that refuses to bow.