Ro Khanna

That's our saving grace from authoritarianism is just his incompetence at times.

Not that we can be complacent, but I totally agree with that diagnosis.

I mean, look how he tried to overturn the election.

It was so incompetent, who he was calling a justice and how he was frantic about it.

It was evil.

It was un-American, but it was also fundamentally incompetent.

But people around him, like Russell Voight and Stephen Miller, they're not incompetent.

Long term.

Well, I gave a whole speech about it nine months ago calling out why he's so dangerous.

Some of these people in Silicon Valley, if you talk to them, they say, well, we would have been conquerors in a different age.

We are ubermensch.

No, I'm not kidding.

They all read Ayn Rand's novel and like The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged and then they stopped reading after that and they view themselves...

as these civilizational builders.

And they view people like me, for those who have read Ayn Rand, as like a Peter Keating fellow, like one of these bureaucrats, these people who get in the way, these politicians who are stopping us from building greatness.

And Peter Thiel literally says that democracy and innovation are not compatible.

They rather

If you ask them, have the wealth accumulated within the hands of a few because they think they know how to invest in AI and invest in Mars and keep America soaring and all the rest of the folks.

Well, they're just the little people who are in the way.

And it is such an arrogance.