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A majority of venture capitalists are likely still Democrats, despite a recent political realignment in the tech industry.
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Jon Askonas
May 27
Vaccine resistance, which was a left-coded political issue a decade ago, is now a right-coded issue.
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Jon Askonas
May 27
Future political tensions within the new right coalition are likely to arise over advanced biotechnologies such as new drugs, vaccines, genetic screening for embryos, and in vitro gametogenesis (IVG).
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Jon Askonas
May 27
A significant fault line in the new right coalition is immigration, where the tech right's desire for global talent conflicts with the MAGA movement's opposition.
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Jon Askonas
May 27
AI companies require the construction of new energy plants to power their data centers, creating a conflict with Democratic constituencies that want to make building such infrastructure more expensive...
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Jon Askonas
May 27
The political allegiance of Fortune 500 CEOs, who were a core part of the Republican Party in the 1980s, is now much more contested.
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Jon Askonas
May 27
The Biden administration's anti-crypto policies, influenced by figures like Senator Elizabeth Warren, made it impossible for crypto companies to operate and created an existential threat to the indust...
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Jon Askonas
May 27
State-level versions of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been initiated in approximately half a dozen states, including Wisconsin.
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Jon Askonas
May 27
Many of President Trump's key policy positions, such as being more opposed to immigration and free trade, were mainstream Democratic Party positions in the 1990s.
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Jon Askonas
May 27
The state of Florida banned the sale of lab-grown meat, an issue that caused significant controversy within the nascent tech-right political community.
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Jon Askonas
May 27
The "Maha" (Make America Healthy Again) movement is composed of people politically radicalized by COVID-19, chronic disease, and a perceived crisis of credibility in the established health system.
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Jon Askonas
May 27
The political objective of the "protocol elite of code" is to use digital automation and AI agents to replace human bureaucracy within government.
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Jon Askonas
May 27
A substantial portion of the tech elite defected from the Democratic party in the 2024 election.
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Jon Askonas
May 27
The new right-wing political coalition is comprised of three main pillars: the "tech right," the "MAGA" movement, and the "Maha" (Make America Healthy Again) movement.
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Jon Askonas
May 27
In Europe, regulators are using Large Language Models to enforce existing hate speech laws at a scale that was previously impossible.
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Jon Askonas
May 27
Tens of millions of Americans own or use cryptocurrency, creating a distributed political constituency that was a sleeper issue in the 2024 election.
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Jon Askonas
May 27
By 2024, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong had become very pro-Trump and pro-Republican, a shift driven by the Biden administration's anti-crypto stance.
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Jon Askonas
May 27
Silicon Valley has been pivoting away from B2B and consumer SaaS towards sectors like AI and hard tech, where interests conflict more starkly with the Democratic Party coalition.
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Jon Askonas
May 27
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is using AI as a new capability to sift through government data to find and publicize instances of waste, fraud, and abuse.
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Jon Askonas
May 27
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has achieved success by taking control of the digital infrastructure of government agencies, such as email and credentialing systems, to bypass bureaucra...
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Jon Askonas
May 27
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