Donald Trump built his brand as a businessman. But behind closed doors, many of America’s top business leaders are privately fuming over his economic agenda.

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale business professor known as the “CEO whisperer,” told CNN that 80 percent of his CEO focus group participants—most of whom are Republicans—are disappointed with the economy’s performance under President Trump.

Sonnenfeld, who leads the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute, said the top concern among executives isn’t inflation or taxes—it’s democracy.

“We’ve had a serious erosion of the foundations of democracy,” Sonnenfeld said. “It’s the corrosive effect and the threat to the free enterprise system of not having a functioning democracy.”

According to CNN reporter Matt Egan, many business leaders ar

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