E53: Dominic Cummings on Elon, Techies in Politics, and New Elitism

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TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) Episode Preview

(01:19) Francis Fukuyama’ and Walter Kaufmann on liberalism

(05:24) European wokeness explosion

(10:07) The fix SF movement

(14:27) SPONSOR: SHOPIFY

(16:05) SF homeless industrial complex

(17:24) Techies in politics

(21:48) Elon and Israel

(24:15) SPONSOR: VANTA

(25:18) Israel’s PR will never win in the west

(36:01) New elitism

(42:34) Appealing in the 2024 election

(53:43) Abortion laws

(01:00:13) British royals

(01:07:45) Educational and political polarization

(01:18:21) A reformed republican Party

(01:23:00) Can we fix SF?