The Silicon Valley venture capitalist’s longstanding commitment to extreme right-wing ideology makes it clear that any attempts to ingratiate himself with liberals are just a means of obtaining crypto-friendly legislation.
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“Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) dismisses attacks on his successful courtship of tech oligarch Marc Andreessen’s financial largesse by claiming that it would be an indefensible `purity test’ to disdain campaign cash from the crypto billionaire.”
“However, Andreessen is not just some ordinary center-right voter with some problematic views. Nor is he genuinely concerned with the well-being of the Democratic Party. Instead, he wants to secure crypto-friendly legislation and a massive payday for himself.”
“Andreessen is a leading figure in both Silicon Valley’s persecution complex and its embrace of both neo-fascistic and monarchical thinking. Andreessen is quick to bemoan his supposed mistreatment at the hands of mean liberals and eager to proclaim that supposed `moderates’ like him were driven into the Republican Party’s awaiting arms. But this is simply not the case. Andreessen has long been a staunch reactionary who embraces authoritarian viewpoints.When recent reporting revealed that Andreessen was central to a vast network of group chats full of powerful people, prominent members included white supremacist Richard Hanania, right-wing provocateur Chris Rufo, Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro.”
“After his acquittal for choking a homeless black man to death on the New York subway, Andreessen Horowitz hired Daniel Penny to jubilation of the right-wing media sphere. He has praised Bari Weiss’ ‘anti-woke’ University of Austin, he’s been a vocal supporter of Elon Musk’s unconstitutional DOGE, and he donated millions of dollars to pro-Trump causes–far in excess of relative trinkets of past support to Democrats. He is just another right-wing extremist.”
“His recent posturing as a moderate willing to listen to both sides is clearly an effort to secure crypto-friendly legislation like the GENIUS Act. His firm is heavily invested in the industry, it’s no surprise then that the one Democrat for whom he has hosted a recent fundraiser, Sen. Ruben Gallego, is the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee’s Subcommittee on Digital Assets. Andreessen is not suddenly reversing course on his long-held beliefs, he’s spreading campaign cash in the hopes of obtaining his legislative goals. It isn’t overly puritanical to say that the way Democrats could address cynicism that its politicians put cash over principle is to have politicians who are less brazenly cynical.”
A full Twitter thread on Andreessen’s history of right-wing extremism can be found here as well as on Bluesky.
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