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“The nub of the conflict,” he wrote, was one question: “Will Republicans be a majority party of working people or a permanent minority speaking only for the C-suite?”

Hawley’s own answer: a permanent minority speaking only for the C-suite—certainly not the 1.2 million Missourians on Medicaid.

The data backs her up: The Muse’s 2024 Women’s Workplace Experience Report found that 42% of women have encountered gender-biased or inappropriate questions during the hiring process, with C-suite women facing it at even higher rates.

That deal brought to the C-suite the acquired company’s top management and its cost-cutting culture; in the Boeing corridors, the standing joke was that “McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing’s money.”

She portrays them as a C-suite Tom and Daisy who were granted public images wildly at odds with their actual selves and who struggled with maintaining that grandiose facade over their clear self-obsessions.