AOC is retarded, but it's true that there are companies that don't care about killing or maiming Americans, destroying the environment, and ruining our country's natural bounties for quick profits. I was reading Clarence Thomas's autobiographical memoirs (My Grandfather's Son—it's a great read or listen because he's literally the stereotype of an extremely poor black guy without a father from the deep south that libshits pander to voters about) and he spent time at Monsanto in the legal department somewhat early in his career. He came across company information about certain chemicals they were producing that were then exposed to workers, especially poor workers in black communities like Savannah where he spent a lot of his formative childhood years. Those chemicals, he realized, were associated with very specific medical conditions like strokes that permanently immobilized half your body. And he connected that to a neighbor who worked in a factory using such chemicals that one day had something like a stroke and could never move the right half of his body again. The black guy could only sit on his porch and use his one working arm to swat at flies for the rest of his life. When Clarence Thomas raised this issue to Monsanto—both on moral and legal grounds, because of the future liabilities from marketing these chemicals—he was dismissed.
The modern American conservative political tradition, with its roots going back at least to people like Teddy Roosevelt, should care a lot about America's environment. Not in the neoliberal or progressive manner of carbon taxes and offshoring industry to Asia, but in the sense that we have a moral and national obligation to preserve the beauty and economic bounties of America. Things like fishing regulations engendered by the Magnuson-Stevens Act have two purposes: ensure that there are fish stocks for the future so that fishermen can have sustainable careers in perpetuity, and prevent foreign fishing fleets from coming into our waters and killing all our fish. Trump picked up on this somewhat in his first term by signing the Great American Outdoors Act, but future conservatives should emphasize protecting our own natural resources so that we—not foreigners or faceless corporations—can enjoy them in all aspects. That means clean water, not peddling chemicals that kill or disable the American working class, clean air, bountiful wild animal stocks, stopping littering, etc. Some parts of the Republican party care more about this than others—the Florida GOP, for example, has always cared more about environmentalism than other parts of the country because fishing and environmental tourism are huge parts of the state economy. But that also includes things with little economic benefit like supporting projects to expand the range of the Florida panther.
One of the worst parts of mass immigration that is most easily observable and disgusting is how third worlders and their city bugmen confederates litter and dump their waste wherever is easiest. It's not only disgusting, but it literally sickens our people and natural resources. It's such an easy layup to say "We are true environmentalists. We don't want your products to be made more expensive by inscrutable carbon taxes that go into untraceable slush funds. We just want you to be able to take your kids to safely swim in the lake, fish for clean fish in the rivers, and enjoy pristine landscapes free from trash." It's an extremely salient issue for young people. But, like with most other policies, the GOP will have to be dragged by their betters to that position, because politicians like Lindsay Graham don't give a shit if you can't take your kid to your childhood swimming hole because a multinational corporation led by soulless Indians dumped dangerous waste products into it to save a thousand dollars.
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