2024/07/21

Elizabeth Spiers Outlines Ideology Driving Silicon Valley Support for Trump

“If you’re an accelerationist who believes that the best way to get this sort of techno-utopia that they’re talking about is to destroy existing government structures and then replace it with something else, Donald Trump is your candidate.”
– Journalist Elizabeth Spiers, outlining why Elon Musk and venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have endorsed Donald Trump. Chatting with Henry Farrell and Dave Karpf, Spires explains how these Silicon Valley figures desire “a different kind of nation-state” where technology is “the linchpin.”
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