Will Sommer

I mean, those people are more or less out in the cold.

They have kind of their legacy audiences.

They're not really driving anything.

Yeah, it seems like he's trying to set himself up as sort of like, you know, a little mix of Trumpism and a little mix of the old Republican Party.

And we're going to combine it.

Whereas J.D.

Vance seems sort of like this.

We're going to go really mega on this or the least, I would say, appetizing aspects of Trump to the non sort of mega base with a little like kind of this techno authoritarianism, this this new right aspect of, you know, we got to do it to our enemies before they do it to us.

And, you know, certainly I think J.D.

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.