Over breakfast on November 6, a regular meeting of CEOs convened by Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of Yale School of Management was regaled with warnings of a “coup d’état” by Timothy Snyder, the Yale historian well-known for his gothic brand of Trump alarmism. As Sonnenfeld admitted, “some thought that was overstating it,” but there was no doubt that the C-suite was concerned. Business leaders did not want a “divided nation. They don’t want fractured communities. They don’t want hostile workplaces.”
