I’ve been reporting about politics in Washington for almost six years, and for a decade, and I participated in more corporate policy programs (and the tendency to shake the head) more than that. I also reported about the gradual dispersal of the reality due to the rise of mega, so I thought that my tolerance was very high to confuse the political phenomenon. But in my life I never thought that I would see Steve Bannon sitting in his bat -up jacket with former Consumer Finance and Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra, which is a significant progressive that has been introduced as a “Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s project”. Are Populism Contraindications? ”
It’s not like the title was out of the left field – Tech right and public right Are In a out -of -war war, and it is roaming the Trump administration. But it was a visual pair that reduced me to send a stage picture with the title of “If the Horsesh’s theory, but the real”.
Benn’s appearance in Y Combinator Little Tech Summit It was surprising earlier this month – its time slot was buried as a panel schedule titled “Talk: TBA”. The conferences have panels whose speakers do not confirm the last minute, and the participants were rarely worried about expected.
The day was Already A mind is fucking and one will continue to mind. Sagar Angate, Right Wade of the Pod Cast Breaking points, To ensure that a panel – a smart man, but last year, the Podcaster hosted a policy panel in the Wi -Combinist was the idea. Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson was introduced by an i -generated invisible avatar. He – as well as the key officials of the Anti -Trust Division of the Justice Department, were also published in the program, while deliberately removing the US Bar Association’s Spring Anti -Trust meeting from across the road, for the first time, any administration did so. By the way, this was rarely the weirdest thing these days – Ferguson, as a leader of the FTC, recently announced his opposition to maintaining the FTC as an independent agency.
Hours later, his progressive predecessor, Lena Khan, criticized President Donald Trump for dismissing two Democratic FTC commissioners and then proceeded to take a photo with Benin. ۔
On stage, a DOJ attorney announced that it was the era of the mega anti -trust. San Josh Holi (R-MO) continued to make a threatening noise in the meta, despite the fact that Mark Zuckerberg has begun to present himself as a manifest, free speech brother. (“I welcome the fact that Zuckerberg says he will no longer engage in clear, provocative censorship. Congratulations, but that does not mean that you will have to violate the laws of no -confidence.”
San Corey Booker was stuck in the room, he condemned Trump’s latest Trump for his 25-hour speech, and three quarters of the room jumped on his feet to appreciate his work of ability and resistance.
I can safely say that I never participated in anything that broke my mind as a moment: lawyers, policy experts, and audiences of government -related teams who clearly (and openly) refused Trump, but were loyal to the mega -populist and right -wing. Blessed, everyone in the room was under the auspices of the Anti Trust, which is one of the most low joints between public rights and progressive left. And, fairly, they were doing this with the worker with a combatator, which is one of the few companies in the A-list Silicon Valley, which can reasonably say that it supports small businesses and is supportive of it (though it is a competition. What Keep the history of changing the small tech Market Domineering Medium Tech). A year ago, the Wi-Combinite invited a similar anti-trust conference and invited similar speakers (including the then Sen. JD Venice, UR-Populist)-but you would hear a sound of a mega-e-mega-e-mega-breeze.
But this is what happens in Trump’s Washington, when the world of policy, and the businesses that should visit it, have to suddenly call the points of his conversation mega friendly. “Supporting small businesses” is now “economic popularity”. “Breaking monopolies” should also include justification “because they are suppressing free speech.” Die Hard Conservative Think Tankers that are usually not invited to programs organized by Fancy Corporate are suddenly invited to host panels with progressive speakers. And Steve Fraking Benin Can appear without getting out of the building. It wasn’t like the DC Tech Policy Industrial Complex was full of mega -derudes overnight – they gave Booker a Standing, For the sake of Christ – but it was strange, at least for this reporter, see the barbarians inside the doors And Collective treatment is being done. In fact, it was so confused that I could barely act on the news that Trump had flown the global economy with the announcement of his rates by the next morning.
Sometimes, you have to work with the enemies to do something, but the mega was running city. Scroll Haters Big tech. And DC Tech Establishment wants to blow up many companies in megabits, it has to be with it now.
