Florida ‘Anti-Woke’ Campaign Turned Responsible Investing Into a Political Enemy

Florida is where woke goes to die. Governor Ron DeSantis said it more than once, and he said it with relish, borrowing the cadence of Winston Churchill’s defiance against the Nazis to announce a fight against, of all things, pension fund managers who weigh climate risk. We will fight the woke in the businesses, he declared, and in government agencies, and in the schools. The enemy, in this telling, was a spreadsheet. That spreadsheet has a name: ESG, s