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John Brido, we have we Editor, is considered whether the technical elite is Maga You can come together
Cover this week It sheds light on the arrival of the technology elite to Washington, which until recently preferred to stay away from the swamp. Mark Zuckerberg, Swandar Pachay and their partners. They have attended several mandatory sessions in front of a committee in the House of Representatives in the past, where the legislators are reprimanding them because they made everything worse. But they generally preferred to send pressure groups to work as envoys to foreign land. I changed some things this: the importance of cryptocurrencies and Amnesty International For owners of investment capital in the West Coast, it made it impossible for the Silicon Valley to assume that the federal government has nothing to do with the matter. There was also a shift to the right between prominent technicians, who were tired of reprimanding them by the left online.
like We are arguing This week, there is a division between Maga Technicians and other parts of the movement. Maga In fact, it is not a conservative movement. Because it seeks to restore the clock back, it shares with the old conservative tendency of Boucanan in many common denominators with regret. It is also less related to institutions than the conservative movement in the twentieth century. But right -wing technicians are not conservative either. They see chances of turmoil. most Maga In contrast, the species want to reduce them to the minimum by maintaining jobs in industries such as mining and manufacturing because of their importance to the working class.
In addition to this division, there is mutual arrogance that plays its role here. CB Snow, a British writer, wrote about the two cultures dominating the British elite in the middle of the century: one of them is revered literature, and the other science. None of them understood the other well. Something similar in American public life occurs.
If no technology giants are published, they will indicate that elected officials and familiarity with the government are, well, somewhat stupid. They do not risk; It seems that they cannot solve clear problems; They did not build anything. If an elected or bureaucratic official is not published, their view of technology giants can be boneless. These are the people and companies who excel in making life a little easier for people between the ages of 20 years who live in San Francisco (Doordash, Uber); And whose products destroyed newspaper economics (Google); It made everyone more stupid (Facebook, Instagram, X); Those who surrounded the Chinese Communist Party (Apple and Tsalla).
As for Elon Musk, it is different, which helps explain the reason that the Democrats find it crazy. Like some other right -wing technicians, he is an apostate, as Democrats supported somewhat. This makes it difficult for Democrats to dismiss it. He built two huge companies (Spacex and Tesla) doing amazing things. Although X has become worse for users since he bought it, it is still only about work, although the number of employees has much lower than it was before taking office. What happened to Twitter may be evidence of what happened Dodge (The Ministry of Governmental efficiency) will recommend Donald Trump.
However, the lesson learned from the previous government reform committees is that there is a difference between determining the errors that take place, which is similar to an engineering problem, and actually solved it, which requires political skill and bodies. The argument ended H1for Visas This is just a preview of this contradiction, but there are more difficult political problems awaiting the president and the new Congress. Should they give priority for deportations or tax cuts? Should these tax cuts be funded by canceling the inflation reduction law (Irish Republican Army)? If so, how will you receive the states and regions that you will receive? Irish Republican Army Conditions for dollars? Will the President’s Supreme Court grant the authority to ignore Congress when it comes to spending the money granted by the legislative authority to the executive authority to spend? Does Trump really want to reduce government spending anyway?
These are not engineering problems. It requires political intelligence, coalition administration, and a degree of cunning or leadership that Trump has not shown in his first term. However, if these two cultures can meet together, reduce each other’s excesses, and work in a productive way, the results may be interesting.
