[MattGaiser]

> Bear in mind that Republicans hate Amazon because of Bezos’s Washington Post and because the whole tech industry is (somewhat correctly) perceived as progressive

Do Republicans actually hate Amazon all that much or do they just go on Fox News or Twitter and proclaim that they do? As much as they might complain about certain corporations, they don't seem to be at the top of the hit list.

[listless]

I don’t think they hate amazon, but they certainly don’t appreciate WaPo or NYT or fill-in-the-blank left leaning media (read most). How that translates to shutting down an Amazon data center just kind of shows how deranged people get when it comes to politics.

[javajosh]

Trump seems to at once despise Bezos for bailing out the WP, but also admires and fear him, since Bezos' money makes Trump look poor in comparison, and the working conditions in Amazon warehouses and anti-union activity reflects the kind of autocratic values that Trump admires. It's pretty clear that Trump would love to be Jeff's friend, which gives Amazon even more leverage to survive any right-wing populist attack.

[paul_f]

This section destroyed the authors credibility altogether in my mind. Seems the entire article was a set up to make a political attack.