Onetime Trump Appointee Helps Spark Sweeping ESG Backlash

On this Thursday in mid-October, he s sitting in his lakeside summer home in Michigan, sipping a Monster energy drink and checking facts and figures on his iPad. Given the big issues of the day inflation, high gasoline prices, war in Ukraine, diminished reproductive rights at home it might seem easy to dismiss ESG as a sideshow. But to Puzder, ESG has worsened many of the challenges that America is facing.

ESG is intricate plan to defeat our democracy

Indeed, Puzder says ESG is the most devious and intricate plan to defeat our democracy, our economic freedom, our individual freedom that he s ever seen. He points to Abraham Lincoln s warning about dangers that spring up amongst us. ESG, Puzder says, is the internal threat.

It might sound overblown, but that viewpoint helps explain why officials in roughly 20 states, from Alaska to Oklahoma to South Carolina, have pushed back on ESG, despite evidence that doing so might actually hurt states financially.

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Puzder is 100 percent right about ESG.