Worth thinking about this as less of a coherent ideology about building stuff or whatever than as nostalgia for when a certain set of guys were younger and somewhat more influential in DC

Arguably helps explain why they spar with the antimonopolists so much: the set that rose to prominence under Obama saw themselves as displaced by Warren-types in the Biden era, and ID'd one of their central flaws as having alienated Silicon Valley from Democrats

Issue isn't necessarily that everyone parroting this line is a shill for hyperscalers—some certainly are—but that it's a really flawed political calculation based in trying to recreate the Obama-era coalition that lots of these guys came up in

I mean you’ve really gotta wonder why the Trump DOJ was collecting travel information about a reporter who helped blow the lid off the Epstein coverup in Florida.

Or maybe we don’t have to wonder at all.