The MAGA-tech situationship

I person been reporting successful Washington for astir six years, and connected authorities for implicit a decade, and I’ve attended much corporate-sponsored argumentation events (and thin to motion disconnected during them) than I tin remember. I’ve besides reported connected the gradual disintegration of reality caused by the emergence of MAGA, truthful I thought my tolerance for confusing governmental phenomena was beauteous high. But ne'er successful my beingness did I deliberation I would spot Steve Bannon sitting onstage successful his beat-up barn overgarment adjacent to erstwhile Consumer Finance and Protection Bureau manager Rohit Chopra, a notable progressive introduced arsenic “a protege of Sen. Elizabeth Warren,” with the 2 of them earnestly discussing the topic: “are techno-optimism and populism incompatible?” 

Not that the taxable was retired of near tract per se — the tech close and the populist right are successful an all-out war, and it’s roiling the Trump administration. But this was a ocular pairing that reduced maine to sending a photograph of the signifier with the caption “what if horseshoe theory, but real” to respective sources. 

Bannon’s quality astatine Y Combinator’s Little Tech Summit earlier this period was a astonishment — his timeslot had been buried successful the docket …

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