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Big Tech Is in a Devil’s Bargain With Donald Trump

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Marc Andreessen has been traveling the podcast circuit, sharing his insider take on why his industry has veered sharply to the right of late.

Peter Bergen : Andreessen ’s theory of “the Deal, with a capital D:’t this at least in part a story of a celebrated underdog industry moving to the center of American life and becoming, with little help needed from the scheming narrative architects, a generic symbol of power rather than disruption.

Bergen says it raises an important question about the present and future of tech.

Clinton -era Democrats had little interest in regulating a new, growing tech industry in part because it was relatively small.

In 2025 , Republicans are more clearly the party of fewer regulations and lower taxes.

In terms of tech-elite self-preservation and in-group membership, the “fashionable and appropriate causes” of the time are now conservative.

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