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Flawed framework Democrats need to accept big tech isn't an ally against Trump
The Guardian Weekly
|December 06, 2024
As Democrats think about how to counter the Trump administration, they need to accept a very simple lesson from the past eight years. Big tech and big business are part of the political opposition working on behalf of Donald Trump, not the Democrats' allies.
It shouldn't seem necessary to point out what seems to be an obvious fact. Nonetheless, there are some Democrats trying to stay close to big tech, or downplaying the importance of anti-monopoly policy when it comes to authoritarian risks. For example, last month, Priorities USA, the largest Democratic party Super Pac, held a big resistance strategy session hosted by "our friends at Google". As another example, Adam Jentleson, a political writer and a former chief of staff for US senator John Fetterman, wrote a recent piece for the New York Times that among other things criticised fighting monopolies as a "niche issue".
This story is from the December 06, 2024 edition of The Guardian Weekly.
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