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The Anti‑Tech Populists Aren’t on the Democratic Party’s Team
Anti-tech populists gained outsized influence in the Biden era, but their goals aren't helping Democrats win. It's time for the party to move past them.
 • Dave Vorland
The Nanny Party: Democrats Alienated Young Men on Tech
Democrats lost young men by becoming the party of tech regulation. A pro-innovation pivot on crypto, AI, and social media could help win them back.
 • Dave Vorland
The Left’s Cope: Real Anti-Tech Populism Has Never Been Tried
In the 2020 Democratic primary, voters treated Joe Biden as the moderate choice.
 • Dave Vorland
The Lose-Lose Politics of Anti-Tech Populism
Biden's anti-tech populism was supposed to win back working-class voters. It didn't — and it cost Democrats Silicon Valley too.
 • Dave Vorland
Biden Put the Brakes on Safer Roads and Drone Deliveries
Each year in the United States, tens of thousands of people die on the nation’s roads.
 • Dave Vorland
Biden’s Missing Tech Jobs Strategy
Nothing is clearer in American politics than that voters care the most about jobs and the economy.
 • Dave Vorland
The Digital Deficit: A Missed Opportunity for Making Government Work Better
The Biden Administration’s pause in federal tech modernization squandered the Obama-era digital advantage, creating a “Digital Deficit” with lasting…
 • Dave Vorland
Biden's “Digital Deficit” From Failing to Defend US Tech
Most people know what a trade deficit is: when a country imports more goods and services from other nations than it exports to those same countries.
 • Dave Vorland
Six Things the Biden Administration Got Right on Technology Policy
My recent focus on the Biden Administration’s record on technology policy in the Blue Horizon Project posts has been largely critical.
 • Dave Vorland
Biden’s Faculty-Lounge Populists Put Exotic Theories Ahead of Pragmatic Protections
President Biden filled his tech policy ranks with elite academics and nonprofit veterans who championed a bold, theoretical version of anti-corporate…
 • Dave Vorland
Biden’s Faculty-Lounge Populism Waged a War on Crypto that No One Asked For
The Biden Administration, guided by the logic of faculty-lounge populism at the regulatory agencies, effectively declared war on the entire…
 • Dave Vorland
Biden’s Tech Regulators Put “Faculty Lounge Populism” Ahead of Consumer Protection
An elitist approach rooted in academic theories, not reality
 • Dave Vorland
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The Blue Horizon Project is a new initiative from Chamber of Progress to restore tech optimism in the Democratic Party and reset the relationship between Democrats and the technology sector.
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