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It has been reported in Washington nearly six years ago, and in politics for more than a decade, and has attended more policy events sponsored by companies (and I tend to gesture during them) than I remember. I also reported about The gradual disintegration of reality Because of the ascension of Maga, so I believed that his tolerance with confusing political phenomena was very high. But I did not think in my life that I would see Steve Bannon sitting on the stage in the barn jacket available next to the former Consumer Protection Office Director Rohit ChopraA prominent gradual progress presented as “ingenuity of the cinemor Elizabeth Warren”, with two of them seriously discussing the topic: “Is technical and popular optimism incompatible?”
Not that the topic was outside the left field itself – The right of technology and popular right We are In an all -out war, it wanders in the Trump administration. But this visual conjugation reduced me from sending a picture of the stage with the explanatory name “What if the theory of horseshoe, but real” for several sources.
Bannon appears in Ycombinator’s Small technology summit Earlier this month it was a surprise – Timelot was buried in the timetable as a committee entitled “TBA”. Conferences tend to have paintings that amplifiers are not confirmed until the last minute, and those present were barely wandering in the anticipation.
It was today actually It was Mindfuck and the mind will remain. Sajar Ingéti, the right -wing host of podcast The score of collapse, He managed a plate – a smart man, for sure, but the idea of hosting PodCaster hosting a policy Policy Panel last year would have been Bonkers. The Chairman of the Federal Trade Committee, Andrew Ferguson, was presented through the Avatar created from the artificial intelligence for himself. He – as well as the main officials in the Anti -Monopathic Department of the Ministry of Justice – in this event while he was deliberate Spring meeting to combat monopoly of the American Lawyers Association Through the street, the first time that any administration has done so. It was granted, this was hardly the strangest thing that was until these days – Ferguson, as the leader of the Federal Trade Committee, was just recently Declare Its opposition to keep FTC K Independent agency.
Hours later, Lina Khan, his progressive predecessor, criticized President Donald Trump for his launch at FTC Commissioners, and then began taking a picture with Bannon. (The image, which ended on social media, ended, causing a slight collapse on the Internet).
On the stage, the lawyer of the Ministry of Justice announced that this was the anti -monopoly era. Senator Josh Holie (R-MO) continued to make a threat noise in Meta, despite the fact that Mark Zuckerberg has begun to present himself as a Manusver speech, supportive of empty. (“I welcome the fact that Zuckerberg says that he will not engage in clear and misleading control anymore. Congratulations, but this does not mean that you violate the anti -monopoly laws.”
The Senator Korea Booker (D-NJ) was limiting the room, returning to his 25-hour speech, we condemned Trump the night before, and three quarters of the room jumped to their feet to pity him from endurance and the courage of resistance.
I can safely say that I have never attended anything completely broken my mind at that moment: an audience of lawyers, politics experts and government relations teams that had not said (and frankly) from Trump, but they were quietly (quietly) to write down notes about what Maga Populalists and Rial-Rialists say. It was granted, every person in the room was there under any of the anti -monopoly discussion, one of the very few common denominators between the populist and the progressive right. To be fair, they were doing it with Y Combinator, one of the few Silicon Valley entities that may say reasonably supports small companies and is supporting the competition (although it is an act Get a date from converting severe small technology into Market delivery Medium technology). In the previous year, Y Combinator held a conference similar to combating monopoly and called on a similar group of speakers (including Then. JD VanceThe UR-Poldist)-But you have heard Nary whispered than the Maga term, much less than listening to an upcoming legal strategy to dismantle Meta and Google bearing the “Maga Antitrust” brand.
But this is what happens in Washington Trump, when the world of politics, and the companies in which you must move in, must suddenly renamed the points of conversation as a friend of Maga. “Small companies support” is now “economic populism”. The “dismantling of” justifications “should include because they suppress freedom of expression. DieHard intellectual carriers are not usually invited to the events sponsored by companies suddenly sponsored by companies to host the panels with progressive speakers. and Steve Bannon It can appear without being screaming outside the building. It was not as if the DC Technical Policy Policy Policy has become full of Maga Diehars overnight – they gave Bokerer Permanent applause, For the sake of Christ – but it was strange, at least for this reporter, seeing the barbarians inside the gates and It is treated collectively. It was so confusing, in fact, that I could hardly address the news that Trump had Just bombing the global economy With his introduction until the next morning.
Sometimes, you have to cooperate with enemies to accomplish something, but Maga was running the city. Maga Hate Big technology. The DC Tech, which has been built on the same companies, must live with it now.