As woke Buzz Lightyear crashed and burned at the box office, as Bud Light spilled its suds before Kid Rock’s rattling submachine gun, it’s never been so obvious—that if you are a company and go woke, you will go broke. Yet as CEOs double down and triple down on ignoring their customers’ values in favor of liberal ideologies, one investor has found a chink in their corporate armor.
For over three decades, investor Thomas Strobhar, 70, from Dayton, Ohio, has adopted shareholder activism to gain pull over which charities don’t receive donations from the companies he invests in. He supports pro-life, Catholic values and has confronted over 150 companies using his tool of choice, shareholders’ resolutions, to ensure that Planned Parenthood gets as little money as possible.