MAGA’s Big Tech Divide | The Ezra Klein Show
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as posted by the channelMAGA has long been hostile to Big Tech. So now that Big Tech is shifting rightward, what does that mean for MAGA?
“We’re seeing a true political coalition having to navigate very, very big questions about how to keep themselves together,” James Pogue told me. He’s a contributing writer at Times Opinion who has been covering the intellectual ferment on the New Right for years. And he just published a great piece () about the tensions between the technooptimists and skeptics within the MAGA coalition.
In this conversation, we cover a lot: How the New Right’s intellectual scene has evolved, the renewed fascination with Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto, why some of the most passionate critics of tech are also the most online, how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fits into this world, the New Right’s ideas about masculinity and how much Donald Trump cares about any of this.
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