It’s a shrinking club, but there are still headstrong CEOs who refuse to bend to the anti-woke winds. None have grabbed more headlines than Costco, the big box holdout who’s clinging to diversity, equity, and inclusion while a stampede of businesses run the other way. After voting down a shareholder resolution last Thursday to return to neutral, the heat is on. And if consumers won’t change the company’s mind, maybe 19 state attorneys general will.
In a surprise move, a coalition of red state law enforcers wrote to the wholesaler, warning that under the new Trump administration and the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, these extreme identity politics would no longer be tolerated.
“Although Costco’s motto is ‘do the right thing,’” the AGs point out, “it appears the company is doing the wrong thing —…
