Michael Steinberger

If people on the left don't take concerns about public safety seriously, voters are going to turn to people on the right who do.

And people on the left are not going to like the results.

He does.

He says at this time that he is the progressive warrior.

He's the true progressive.

He is doing more to defend the values that liberals claim to cherish than they are.

He believes that Palantir, and whether it's helping enforce immigration laws or fighting terrorism, is defending liberal progressive values.

But he's also stung by the criticism that he and Palantir are getting from the left, by the vitriol directed at them.

And over time, he grows increasingly disenchanted with the Democrats and the left.

Disenchantment that grows during the Biden presidency and that culminates with a massive event that ends up cementing his break with the Democrats, the October 7th terrorist attack in Israel.

Well, Karp is shaken by the events of October 7th, as many people were.

He's very supportive of Israel.

He sees Israel's security in very personal terms.

At one point, he had said to me that if things go sideways, Israel's a place I can go.

So it's very much bound up in this sense of vulnerability that he feels as someone who is Jewish.

And October 7th just kind of crystallizes all these fear and sense of vulnerability.

He says to me at one point, this is a survival situation.

And he means that as much for himself as it is for other people.

Palantir already has an office in Tel Aviv.

Software has been used by the Mossad for a number of years.