He's so right about #5. See what's happened to Peter Thiel. People were calling for him to be fired because he supported a major party nominee. That's not a good sign for so many reasons.
Trump has been unique here. Thinking back to 2012, I don't think anyone really cared that much when a significant minority of VCs lined up to support Mitt Romney.
Like, did anyone freak out about Marc Andreessen supporting Romney or any of Trump's primary opponents? Nope. Actually I take that back: lots of people on the right got real angry when he supported Hillary Clinton after it became clear Trump had cinched the nomination.
Whereas I agree with you in principle, let's not normalize Trump by calling him a "major party nominee" as if that abdicates us of our responsibility to push back against dangerous political identities. We can point to many a "major party nominee" in history that people supported who also shouldn't be normalized...
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He's so right about #5. See what's happened to Peter Thiel. People were calling for him to be fired because he supported a major party nominee. That's not a good sign for so many reasons.
Trump has been unique here. Thinking back to 2012, I don't think anyone really cared that much when a significant minority of VCs lined up to support Mitt Romney.
Like, did anyone freak out about Marc Andreessen supporting Romney or any of Trump's primary opponents? Nope. Actually I take that back: lots of people on the right got real angry when he supported Hillary Clinton after it became clear Trump had cinched the nomination.
Whereas I agree with you in principle, let's not normalize Trump by calling him a "major party nominee" as if that abdicates us of our responsibility to push back against dangerous political identities. We can point to many a "major party nominee" in history that people supported who also shouldn't be normalized...