First time I actually read one of your posts. Very interesting, especially the demonetizing part. Just curious - do you think Conservatives have more money than Liberals?
I'll answer this in a different way than others would approach a question like this.
If you are a business owner, at any level, the most devastating thing that can happen to you short of the day you go under, is if you have to lay off good people because of something you could control. I'm not the only small business owner here, and like many others, you form a surrogate family with your work force. If you succeed, they keep their jobs, they pay their mortgages, they feed their kids. If you screw up, they could lose all of that because of your bad decision making. That's a heavy weight.
It's one thing if you have to lay off ten people if the first two are problematic or idiots or guys you knew would have to go soon anyway. But it's tears at your soul if you have to trim the numbers to people you like, people who were loyal, people who are still valuable, people you know will be close to impossible to replace a year later. And if it's because you said or did something stupid, that makes it even worse. If a flying saucer falls out of the sky and destroys your restaurant, what can you do? But if you expand too fast, borrow too much money, come into too many major expenses at once because you didn't plan ahead, get into a lawsuit, etc, etc, the list is vast and endless of ways you can bleed out, those are situations you inflicted.
Conservatives/Republicans don't need to have tons of money. They just need to inflict enough financial loss where people need to be laid off and it will be good solid people and there is no way cognitive dissonance will excuse any of it. Company X went woke, and they took the hit and suffered for it. David Barrett of Expensify sent a mass pro Biden/Vote for Biden email to 10 million people on his email list. His customers were the companies, they signed the formal TOS. The individual employees did not. You can find Barrett talking like some kind of woke hero, but what if he has to lay off half his workforce a year from now because of all of this? Only 19 of close to 140 of his workforce got to vote on sending that email. Barely 2/3rds wanted to do it. He called that a majority and did it anyway. If Barrett has a conscience and his employees are out of work in a tanked economy over this, then what is the recourse? Maybe he blames Trump or someone else. Maybe he has the balls to just be straight up and blame himself.
I could punish you on a team if I was training you. But what is more devastating? Punishing you or punishing the entire team besides you and making you watch? Watch your brothers suffer because of you. Do you know what the greatest sin is on any team environment? Letting your brothers down when they needed you the most. Nothing is more prized between men than loyalty.
I suppose one argument here is that a major corporate entity won't care. It will likely be run by some sociopath who sees everyone as a spear thrower in their own personal feudal army. And my entire work and career experience for decades upon decades is that's just not true. It sells in a movie, but it's just not true. That weight does impact all the things you do in the future. And even for the true psychopaths out there, remember it's never about other people, it's how other people make you feel about yourself. Whether it's empathy or self preservation of the ego, no one wants to hold the ax in their hand against other people's livelihoods.
When someone's kids can't eat because of your whims, there is no more cognitive dissonance. You just have to live with being someone who can't look in the mirror in the morning anymore. I feel sorry for lots of people on the radical woked out cancel culture left. Many are being used like a two dollar whore at closing time and don't even know it.
Sometimes you can't kill the dragon, sometimes you can only castrate it. Imagine a life without your dingle berries and, as Marshawn Lynch puts it, your ding dong sauce. Sometimes a quick death would have been much easier.
This is how Conservatives win. Demonetize their opposition to the point where how they feel about themselves falls apart.