Will Sommer

Vance's people see Ted Cruz as potentially their biggest rival amid the previous controversy over Tucker Carlson interviewing Nick Fuentes.

The Heritage Foundation got caught up in all this stuff.

The Vance partisans were saying this is really kind of like a proxy war between basically Ted Cruz's people, people like Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro.

They're only heightening this issue because they know that J.D.

Vance has ties to Tucker and they're trying to damage J.D.

Vance over it.

Yeah, I mean, I think there are a couple issues there.

I mean, I think the anti-big tech stuff, you know, operates on a couple angles, you know, potentially the surveillance aspect, the sort of, you know, Steve Bannon talks a lot about his fears of like the singularity when we all become robots.

But sort of on the less extreme aspect, the sort of more practically, I think there's a growing anger over like AI data centers in these communities and people's fear that, you know, you'll get taken over by a server farm.

There's a lot of anger on the populist and I think really young white men over H-1B visas and the idea that this dovetails with the kind of the anti-Indian hatred we've been seeing rising and the idea that these tech companies are really like, you know, just importing all these workers.

So I think there's a lot there.

And then, you know, the other thing is.

What's another big movement within the right right now is Maha.

And these are people who are crunchy.

They often want to go away for less technology in their lives.

So I think there's a couple little vectors here that I think JD Vance's ties to big tech companies could be an issue.

I think that's right.

I feel like the tech oligarchs have been so successful at aligning themselves with the Trump administration that in some ways it's become a problem for J.D.

Vance and how is he going to separate himself, leaving aside his own personal ties.

No, I'm really not.