Ted Cruz: Target Boycott Will Fail, We Suck At Boycotts

“Conservatives have typically been not very good at boycotts. Part of the problem is that for some things it’s hard to substitute, Disney’s an example where you can be annoyed at Disney, but if your kids really want to go to Disney World, that can be hard to say no to. There’re not a lot of alternatives. There’s Six Flags but Disney World is a pretty unique offering.

“That is a difficult product for many people to give up permanently. I think the same thing is true about pro sports. I think lots of sports fans are unhappy with the NFL or the NBA and all of the woke nonsense, but at the same time, people, and I’ll put myself in this camp, really love going to sports events and cheering on their teams.

“Target – we’ll see how prolonged and easy a substitution it is. There’s Walmart — there are alternatives. I will say Targets are located in a lot of areas and are very convenient for a lot of shoppers. So we’ll see if this becomes a persistent consequence or not.

“But whether it is sustained, the fact that it was so concentrated and intense has, I think certainly made a real impression on the Target executives, I hope. But also on the next executive.” – Ted Cruz, speaking today on his podcast.

As longtime JMG readers know, Christian hate groups like the American Family Association have called for boycotting Target for many years due to the company’s pro-trans restroom policy.

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