Ro Khanna

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...

blind in ways that they themselves cannot recognize.

And so how do you think about this contradiction?

Look, the question here is, like, what does it mean to be plausibly conservative?

Yeah.

Right?

Like, that was the whole Trump project.

Of course, we see how that has revealed itself at this point.

But when it comes to Silicon Valley, you know, there's a term that I've heard you use before, the aristocracy of talent.

And there is something that is appealing.

Again, I'm a first-generation American, parents from the Philippines, was...

at Harvard when Zuckerberg founded Facebook, and Larry Summers was the president of the university, actually.

I was in awe at times of this very social network.

And yet, as much as I want this country to be the meritocracy that also made me feel like a B plus was an F, there is something about unintended consequences that I find Silicon Valley to be horrific.

at actually waiting and considering, like, their blind spots and those impacts that follow that I think might be their undoing when it comes to, will a nation support such people and such inequality?

As I was watching you reply to all these people, again, many of them founders, CEOs, billionaires in your mentions who are furious at you.

I'm thinking to myself, and again, you are conflicted because Silicon Valley is literally the district you represent.

But broadly speaking, running against all of these people is clearly a lane that is open to the Democratic Party.

Just like actually saying, you know how you're,