“To think that large influential actors can stay out of things when democracy is threatened is an illusion, frankly,” she says. It has taken a strong stand against election denialism and created a “democracy report card” for business leaders. Trump had been elected president, and I saw an overall risk that faith in democracy as a whole was eroding. Well, businesses in America are definitely involved in politics, but in a particularly narrow way right now, right? Daniella Ballou-Aares: I don’t think you can boil it all down to just an equation of positive upside for your company versus negative.