The dollar amount here is not large (though it's the most they're allowed to give by law). More significant is the loud public signal of support from a company facing antitrust action, part of a duopoly in political advertising. Each of these politicians will pay Google a fortune
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Google's ability to maintain a highly pro-Trump public policy stance, while mollifying a very liberal workforce, is a testament both to the company's political finesse and the prodigious rationalization powers of its pampered employees
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Imagine how easy it would be for Google, supposedly a disinterested member of our political advertising duopoly, to not make such highly symbolic donations to key Republican races two months out from a pivotal election. And yet they do it, and their employees let them do it.
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kind of telling choice of name, too
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