How democrats drove silicon valley into Donald Trump's arms
Donald Trump supporters they are today. For a recent episode of the New York Times Opinion podcast «Matter of Opinion,» co-host and columnist Ross Douthat spoke with Andreessen to learn about his political evolution: For decades, Andreessen supported Democrats, but he endorsed Trump in the 2024 election and is now advising on the transition.
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The completeinterview can be found in any podcast player. Below is an edited excerpt.
Ross Douthat: So it's 2020, 2021. Joe Biden is president. All of Silicon Valley seems completely on the side for the defeat of Trump, the deplatforming of Trump, and we're only four years removed from that. So how do we get from Biden being sworn in to here?
Marc Andreessen: So maybe just the short thing I'll tell you about 2016 to 2020 is that there were a series of additional 10-X-ing events — of radicalism and intensity of all the politics. It was Trump's nomination, it was Trump's election, and then it was Russiagate.
And then, of course, COVID was a giant radicalizing moment, and at that point, we had lived through eight years of what was increasingly clearly a social revolution. Very clearly, companies are basically being hijacked to engines of social change, social revolution. The employee base is going feral. There were cases in the Trump era where multiple companies
