Ro Khanna

I feel.

I didn't feel better.

I was going back and forth, back and forth.

You're replying.

You're in your mentions as billionaires.

Billionaires are very mad that you would dare propose.

A higher tax on them.

That they be taxed in ways that horrify them.

What's very funny as I listen to you say these things is that you're very practiced at being able to say and rattle off, here are these things we should accomplish.

And I can sense, of course, your political polish.

And yet the reason...

I keep on wanting to ask you for these things because they're radical, despite the fact that they also can be presented in such a way that's like, yeah, this is a platform, but also like it takes balls to say the things that you just said and to argue with these people in Silicon Valley and to understand their psychology, right?

So I want to actually go back to the demographics that you represent, both as a politician and also come from, right?

So you know these people.

So I think the shorthand for what happened to Silicon Valley in terms of why did they pivot further right?

The phrase that I often find myself using is that their brains got eaten by the Internet.

And I don't know if that's sufficient to describe what's really the psychology here.

Because you and I both know these are men with cognitive processing power.

And in fact, part of the issue here seems to be that they believe themselves to be the great men of their time.

And insofar as they can accomplish the things that great men historically aspired to accomplish, they're also perhaps...