What I refer to is Jim Burnham book, “the Managerial Revolution.” A large corporation is a small government run along bureaucratic lines. Hence the natural allies of government bureaus.
Business cozying up to gov’t is as naturasl as anything else it does to achieve a competitive edge. However, for most of this country’s history gov’t has acted as a business constraint rather than an ally. Business treat gov’t accordingly.
It is only recently that businesses have taken on an ideological hue and it is red. Present Wall street leadership is aligned with the Usurping Marxist in the WH—as are some large corporations. I give you GE, GM and Chrysler as examples.
Whatever past alliances there were between business and government are small potatoes compared to what is happening now. You it is serious when businesses align themselves with an ideology that is anti-business.