WoKe CaPiTaLiSm Is Destroying America!
The Climate Denier's Playbook
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Government Spending and Right-Wing Influence
The chapter explores the irony of people who complain about government spending while contributing to state financial losses. It also discusses the influence of Leonard Leo and efforts to counter liberal dominance in American culture.
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RED ALERT! The shadowy deep-state cabal of coastal elites that controls the world is using “ESGs” and wOkE CaPiTaLiSm to kneecap the American entrepreneurial spirit!
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CREDITS
- Hosts: Rollie Williams & Nicole Conlan
- Executive Producer: Ben Boult
- Audio Producer: Gregory Haddock
- Researcher: James Crugnale
- Art: Jordan Doll
- Music: Tony Domenick
SOURCES
- The Ingraham Angle. (2022, September 22). Fox News via Media Matters.
- Little Rock Public Radio. (2023, March 22). Audio recording reveals coordinated push against ESG investing. University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
- Capitalisn’t: The Smoke and Mirrors of ESG Investing. (n.d.). The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
- Pucker, K. P., & King, A. (2022, August 1). ESG Investing Isn’t Designed to Save the Planet. Harvard Business Review.
- Dierking, D. (2022, May 19). S&P 500 ESG Index: Tesla Out, ExxonMobil In. ETF Focus on TheStreet: ETF Research and Trade Ideas.
- Hillsdale College. “Woke Capitalism Against America | Vivek Ramaswamy.” (2021, May 20) Appears at 8:29. YouTube.
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- Taft, M. (2022, October 21). The Right-Wing Groups Behind the War on ESG. The New Republic.
- Vogel, K. P. (2022, October 12). Leonard Leo Pushed the Courts Right. Now He’s Aiming at American Society. The New York Times.
- Floodlight, A. A. (2023, June 12). Lawmakers passed a bill to stop insurers from considering ESG criteria in setting rates. The Texas Tribune.
- D. Garrett et al. Gas, guns, and governments: Financial costs of anti-ESG policies. (n.d.). Brookings.
- Surgey, A. K. B. (n.d.). Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance.” ProPublica.
- Hoyle, E. (2023, July 12). MEMO: Leonard Leo Pulls the Strings Behind MAGA House
- Masters, B. (2022, December 14). Vanguard spared ESG grilling in Texas after ditching green alliance. Financial Times.
- Lange, J. (2023, May 10).Congress’ ESG Hearing Was Seriously Weird. Heatmap.news.
- Qiu, L. (2023, March 15). No, “Wokeness” Did Not Cause Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse. The New York Times.
- 2023 Statehouse Anti-ESG Report. (n.d.). Pleiades Strategy.
- 2023 ESG State Legislation Wrap Up. (n.d.). Www.klgates.com.
- Rives, K. (2023, June 28) Half of anti-ESG bills in red states have failed in 2023 as campaign pushes on. (n.d.). S&P Global.
- Marino, K. (2023, February 22). Texas’ “anti-woke” policies cost taxpayers millions. Axios.
- Muñiz, L. B., March 20, I. C. C., & 2023. (2023, March 20). Indiana pension system contracts with conservative anti-ESG firm. Indiana Capital Chronicle.
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