“Three Months In, Evaluating Three Rationalist Cases for Trump” by Arjun Panickssery
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I recall seeing three “rationalist” cases for Trump:

• Richard Ngo on Twitter and elsewhere focused on the realignment of elite coalitions, observing that “most elite institutions have become leftist monocultures” but speculating that “over the next 5–10 years Silicon Valley will become the core of the Republicans.” The left-wing monoculture catastrophically damaged institutional integrity when public-health officials lied during the pandemic and when bureaucrats used threats and intimidation to censor speech on Facebook and Twitter and elsewhere—in the long-term this could move the country toward the draconian censorship regimes, restrictions on political opposition, and unresponsiveness to public opinion that we see today in England, France, and Germany. While we have strong free-speech protections now, we could be “frog-boiled by bureaucracies … an unsolved civilizational problem which has already strangled western economies and is now wrecking politics.” Maybe a coalition of new Silicon Valley elites like Musk, Thiel, Luckey [...]

First published: April 18th, 2025

Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tKhbDBkstMJuBv7jg/three-months-in-evaluating-three-rationalist-cases-for-trump)

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