Balaji Srinivasan

Okay, so right at the same time the internet was disrupting Democrats, China's disrupting Republicans in manufacturing.

So this meant that literally the pie was shrinking for both Democrats and Republicans.

So how'd they react?

With Democrats, they reacted by attacking their two competing factions, which were Republicans and the internet.

So first, they attacked Republicans.

And this is a chart, New York Times word usage frequency, 1970 to 2018.

It's small over here.

You can Google that and put that on screen.

But it basically shows toxic masculinity, white privilege.

All those things went vertical in the year 2013.

not before not after i mean they went after but the thing is they went totally vertical then because the new york times made an editorial decision post 2013 to basically go woke why that boosted traffic why they need traffic because the internet disrupted them and uh this was also an ideological weapon against the republicans so they use wokeness against republicans to argue we're morally good you're evil and racist therefore we should tax you and give it to our clients okay so

Wokeness was the Democrat weapon against Republicans.

And then the tech lash was the Democrat weapon against the Internet.

As you may remember during this time, the 2010s, all kinds of tech guys were canceled for all kinds of things from the GitHub CEO.

Obviously, Uber, Travis Kalanick was a very prominent example of this.

But tech guys, large and small, were forced to hire D.I.

Democrats at their companies.

They were essentially basically surveilled on the Internet.

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