Robinson Meyer

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The Opinions · Is This the Fastest Opinion Shift in American Politics? · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

And now that's partially because

Executives in the technology industry were annoyed or frustrated or hated policies adopted by the Biden administration.

But the connection of the Trump administration and the technology industry, and I think the Republican Party with the technology industry, is like a new thing that...

Democrats in power have never fully had to reckon with.

And I think there's still some disagreement within the party about whether they heighten the contradictions further and try to regulate the technology industry and the AI industry as aggressively as, for instance, we regulate, say, the car industry or the power sector or...

heavy industry.

Or whether they try to seek some kind of compromise or return to the status quo, I'd say, hey, a lot of technology CEOs are very important Democratic Party donors.

They're very important contributors to all these other causes that we care about.

And we're going to try to seek some kind of

We're going to seek some kind of compromise or deal with them instead of heightening the contradictions and cracking down on them further.

I think a few things.

I mean, I think to some degree what we're picking up on is not a lost moment where we believed that science and technology were governable, though that is part of the makeup.

I think the other thing we're picking up on is the transformation of the Republican Party from a party that represents religious values and has a sense of clearly evangelical Christian values and virtues around life and what life should be and

the role of men and women to a Republican Party now that

at least as embodied by Donald Trump, doesn't have many virtues except those around power and doesn't stand for much beyond self-aggrandizement, accumulation, and power.

So part of what we're picking up on, I think, is just the transition from a Christian right to a post-Christian right.

But I also think that there's two other factors here, one of which is that

It was particularly easy to govern global science and technological development in the 1990s because only really the U.S.

and Europe were at the forefront of global science and technological development.

And so if the U.S.

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