Fri Mar 3, 2023 – 12:53 pm ESTFri Mar 3, 2023 – 1:19 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) hosted a panel Friday titled “The New Axis of Evil: Soros, Schwab, and Fink,” which focused on the ability of wealthy elites to force far-left policies upon the United States and around the world.
The panel consisted of Sean Spicer, former President Donald Trump’s first press secretary; Andrew Puzder, businessman and senior visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation; and Charles McCall, Oklahoma Speaker of the House.
The title references the influence of leftist financier George Soros, World Economic Forum founder Charles Schwab, and Larry Fink, CEO of the investment firm BlackRock; but the actual discussion was more broadly about the impact of so-called “environmental, social, and corporate governance” (ESG) standards, a scoring system that incentivizes investing in companies not on the basis of their performance for customers and shareholders but rather on their fealty to so-called “social justice” principles such as diversity and environmentalism.
Puzder explained that the trend began with pressure from entities like BlackRock for corporations to embrace the Paris Climate Accords, “shoving these policies down on the
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