We Need to Make a List of the Corporations Supporting Trump

In the same way, many business leaders backed Hitler before he took power, so too many today back Trump because they want more money.

In 1947, the leaders of Bayer Leverkusen were put on trial for their complicity in the atrocities of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime. Supporters from the earliest days of the 1920s, the maker of the famous Bayer aspirin, experimented on concentration camp inmates, among other things.

Bayer was not the only company that became a household name in the United States after the war. Krupps, Volkswagen, Mercedes, and many other German companies joined Adolf Hitler’s “make Germany great again” movement, otherwise known as the National Socialist Party. Since CEOs, politicians, and other so-called leaders in our society expressed shock and disgust after the Trump-led insurrection of January 6th, the muscle memory of those January 2021 days has failed them. The brief moments when those business leaders put the country’s interests ahead of their own greedy ones were terrifically short-lived. Today, the list is long of CEOs whose very wealthy companies are backing a president calling for the use of the military to jail his opponents.

The Blackstone C.E.O. Stephen Schwarzman and the hedge…