'Very funny': Billionaire mocked for bemoaning 'broken deal' and ditching Dems for Trump
Pro-Trump billionaire Marc Andreessen sat for an interview with the right-wing Hoover Institution's "Uncommon Knowledge," and explained how he drifted away from the Democratic Party into the MAGA camp over the last few years — even though, in reality, he backed the GOP in presidential campaigns as far back as 2012.
"So the way I describe it is, look, I came up in the 90s, you know ... it was just sort of assumed that if you were in Silicon Valley and high tech in the 90s, it was just assumed, Clinton-Gore heyday. It was just assumed, what I now call 'The Deal,' with a capital D, and no one ever said it out loud, but it was just assumed," said Andreessen.
"And the Deal was, you could be a high-tech entrepreneur, you can build all this amazing technology, you can build a successful company, you can create lots of jobs, the technology makes the world a better place, it's great, you take the company public, you make a lot of money, at some point you take the money and you donate it to philanthropy. And that's the full arc."
And tech entrepreneurs, he continued, would do all this "with the support of the press," who hailed tech advancements as good for society and good for democracy.
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However, he complained, over the last 10 years "radicalized college kids" have taken over the Democratic Party and now everything he does that he saw as part of "The Deal" is considered "evil," from building companies to developing technology, to engaging in philanthropy.
Andreessen's interview attracted broad scorn from commenters on social media, including the X alternative platform Bluesky.
"Andreessen has been the most transparent about why he's moved right and is now supporting Trump," said political writer Thor Benson. "They don't like that everyone doesn't worship them anymore."
"It’s wild how the 'deal' Andreessen describes is basically aristocracy," wrote Dame Magazine columnist Kaitlin Byrd. "We really have failed ourselves as a society."
"It remains very funny that Mitt Romney bundler Marc Andreessen has been making the rounds for eight years talking about how recent changes in society have turned him to the right," wrote Michael Caley of the Expecting Goals newsletter.
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