The New York Times made a sneaky edit to its own transcript to make Andreessen sound more coherent.
Marc Andreessen, the billionaire tech investor who co-founded Netscape, has recently been making the rounds on various podcasts to talk about how the Democrats were so very mean to him and forced him to become a supporter of Donald Trump. Andreessen’s obnoxious whining wouldn’t otherwise be notable, given how many guys in the tech industry have blamed backlash against “wokeness” on their support for the MAGA movement.
Andreessen was droning on about how lefty ideas had permeated every aspect of American culture in the late 2010s, with Silicon Valley companies under fire from all corners. And people who read the: So you’re in this sandwich from all of your constituents, and then you’ve got the press coming at you. You’ve got the activists coming at you, and then you’ve got the government coming at you.: So you’re in this sandwich from all of your constituents, and then you’ve got the press coming at you.
The problem with that explanation, is that Adreesen didn’t really correct himself, but actually doubled down on the idea. Douthat goes on to ask Andreessen about how Hillary held sway when Trump had the “real power” as president. And Andreessen questions the premise, asking “would you describe Donald Trump ran the federal government between 2016 to 2020?”
While 2016 and 2020 were the years the U.S. presidential elections took place, Trump took office in January of 2017, so Andreessen would technically be correct that Trump didn’t have any power during that first year he cites, 2016. But that’s clearly not what he meant. He’s trying to suggest Trump wasn’t actually in control of the government because there was a “deep state” thwarting his will.
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