A lobbying and communications outfit with deep ties to GOP leadership argued in a recent memo that the rise of “woke CEOs embracing avant-garde social agendas” is fueling a populist surge in the Republican Party that threatens to upend its longstanding pact with big business. There’s “trouble ahead for the tried-and-true coalition of Republicans and corporate America—and the issues they care about,” CGCN Group wrote. That coalition has, for years, pushed back against what they saw as big government, anti-free market policies, the authors argued. But as more members of the Republican old guard retire and young up-and-comers hardened by battles on the barricades of America’s culture wars gain more influence in the GOP, the memo’s authors see the stirrings of a realignment within the party that they characterize as an “anti-big business bent.” “Whether on issues related to technology and social media, immigration, taxes, trade, and much else, congressional Republicans—many …