Silicon Valley figures like Mark Zuckerberg were not deeply ideological but defaulted to liberalism; when liberal approaches failed, the institutional response was always to 'up the dose'—spend more, go more woke—until the strategy's obvious failure forced a pivot, which explains the 2024 shift toward Trump rather than any genuine pro-Trump conviction.
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“you up the dose and you up the dose and you spend hundreds of millions of dollars and you go completely woke and everybody hates you. And at some point, it's like, O.K, maybe this isn't working. So they pivot.”
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A.I., Mars and Immortality: Are We Dreaming Big Enough? | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat— Interesting Times with Ross DouthatCreated: 6/18/2026, 2:32:27 PM
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