Can Trump Keep Business Connected to the GOP?

So, we’re three days away from the first debate of the 2024 campaign, and the media is chockfull about political stories because otherwise there would be nothing to report except what’s going on in Gaza and Ukraine. And since nobody really cares about either conflict, particularly since the college kids have all gone home and the campuses have been swept clean of their tent cities, there would be no way that anyone would tune into CNN to watch the 15 advertisements they run every half hour without endless popups about the big deal on Thursday night.

The best story so far this week on the campaign, i.e., the word ‘best’ meaning dumbest story of all, is a column in The (failing) New York Times about how Trump is currently suffering from the lowest level of corporate support in the history of the GOP.

The op-ed is the handiwork of a Professor at the Yale University School of Business, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, who runs something called the Executive Leadership Institute which brings corporate managers to the New Haven campus to teach them how to better run their own shops.

When I was a manager at a Fortune-100 company, I attended several such seminars presented by another university business school which competed with the Yale program and offered the same bunch of self-improvement management programs which got me out of the…