Gazza M everyone should read that article. the post covid 'vibe shift' to the right is largely bullshit. its been a coordinated and manipulated effort by tech bros like musk/andreesen
Decent read, but the "vibe shift" looks pretty real to me? It's the shifting allegiances of a bloc of capital, not a decisive mass political shift.
The tech billionaires and their officials had the conversations that demonstrated to them that they weren't actually good people and they did actually have class interests to express. That realisation unfolded adjacent to Trump getting re-elected as an aspiring fascist seeking new filiative relations with just such captains of industry.
Marc Andreessen is no grey eminence, either. The article's greatest vice is suggesting the man who wrote "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto" has a refined and lively understanding of anything. Andreessen's not a complete idiot, but he is quite dumb: an excitable blogger who happens to be very rich and to have had a certain influence among investors, but I don't think he has much role determining US political currents. Y-Combinator stopped incubating winners many years ago.
As the article points out, the tariff wars have already brutally fractured any nascent pro-Trump techno-capital alliance, and group chats aren't the foundations of stable political parties.
I doubt any Trump-tech alliance can prove to be durable, no more than Musk or Zuckerburg's previously professed liberal values were. What's more interesting is that US tech is mobilising politically in this way and slowly forming up into factions with different sets of interests.
I take the view the current situation is more "Trump is Yeltsin" than "Trump is Hitler". I'm not sure what the longer term paranoid strongman nationalism of US imperial decline might look like in a few years' time.
