Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently taunted business leaders in The Wall Street Journal column announcing “Old-fashioned corporate Republicanism won’t do in a world where the left has hijacked big business…policies that benefit corporate America don’t necessarily serve the interests of America’s people and economy.” It used to be obvious that CEOs were reliably Republican. Corporate executives wanted lower taxes, less regulation, and a stable economy. They were usually men with military experience who moved with their families out to the suburbs. Ronald Reagan was their favorite president: pro-business, pro-free markets, and anti-government. Historically, 57.7 percent of big company CEOs contributed to the GOP but only 18.6 percent contributed to Democrats, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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