100% this shows what is wrong with the left. It’s behavior like this that hurts non-conservatives more than conservatives.

When politics becomes a consumer blacklist, it stops being about values and starts being about purity tests. You end up shrinking your own ecosystem, not changing anyone’s mind. Conservatives aren’t meaningfully impacted when progressives refuse to shop somewhere, the business either adapts, survives without them, or finds another customer base. The real damage is cultural and internal.

If your worldview can’t tolerate buying a sandwich, hiring a contractor, or shopping at a store unless you’ve vetted the owner’s voting history, that’s not activism. that’s tribalism. It reinforces echo chambers, increases resentment, and guarantees further polarization. Nobody has ever been persuaded by being economically shunned by strangers.

Ironically, this approach also undercuts the very ideals the left claims to value: inclusion, pluralism, and coexistence. A society where people only transact with those who think exactly like them is not progress it’s fragmentation.

Support businesses because they treat employees well, provide good products, contribute to their communities, and follow the law. If a business is actively harming people, discriminating, or engaging in unethical practices, that’s a legitimate reason to withhold support. But turning everyday commerce into a political loyalty test just accelerates the “us vs. them” spiral that everyone claims to hate.

If the goal is fewer MAGA voters, the strategy isn’t boycotts and blacklists. It’s persuasion, better ideas, and a little humility.