I'm happy for any business to follow its own stated mission, right? If your mission is to serve customers who want to buy pride merchandise, I don't think it's the role of the state or anybody else or me. What I have a problem with is when businesses deviate from that mission at behest of third-party actors like BlackRock and State Street. That's where my problem is. And here, there is some daylight between Trump and myself on most of the America First Agenda. We should compete in a meritocratic economy.
The entrepreneur is running a longshot campaign for the GOP nomination on an “American nationalist,” anti-“woke capitalism” platform. Semafor’s Dave Weigel explains why so many Republicans now think they have a chance at the crown.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King.
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