Robinson Meyer
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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They believe that Democrats are the party that can help them.
And I think we're already seeing that in midterms.
I don't feel like there's a clear policy menu on the table for these things.
I think what's interesting is that when you look at a politician like Bernie Sanders, he's put forward a national data center moratorium.
Other politicians have not quite followed.
But when you kind of look at how Bernie is expressing why he thinks a moratorium is the right choice, it actually has far more to do with
the existential concerns around AI and the doomsday concerns around AI than it does with the local land use concerns.
Yeah, and I think that's where a lot of candidates are right now.
I mean, I think if you take a step back,
I guess what I'd observed broadly is that most of the workers in the tech industry and some of the executives were seen as progressives for the past 10 to 30 years.
And the Democratic Party saw part of its mission as empowering this new sector of the economy in part to combat corruption.
the old industrial forces that it believed were holding back the economy or didn't put environmental causes or labor causes at the center of their existence, right?
There has been a long-term policy goal of empowering the technology industry
as almost an economic development policy for the United States, in part because the technology industry was going to solve problems that we wanted to see solved, or the Democrats wanted to see solved.
Exactly.
Yeah, yeah.
And what changed?
during this Trump administration is that the tech industry identified itself with the Trump administration.
It saw the Trump administration as being key to getting the outcomes that it wanted.
All those CEOs went to his inauguration.
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