Do You Think There's a Parallel Horseshoe Politics?

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There are still some voices from the old anti-war left. And then of course, yeah, people like Tucker Carlson on the so-called new right in the US who are also against it. So you think there's a parallel sort of left-right alliance potentially going on there? Well I'd hope that to be the case, but just in the last few days you had this spectacle of 30 progressive members of the House put out this tepid letter. Even that relatively anodyne letter had to be denounced and the signatories virtually all of them disavowed it. The member of Congress who would expect to be the most vocal outspoken critic of the war would be someone like Bernie

Freddie Sayers meets David Sacks.

When Elon Musk unveiled his notorious Ukraine peace proposal on Twitter last month, it caused quite the stir. For simply outlining the potential contours of a negotiated settlement between Ukraine and Russia, the new Twitter CEO was derided as a dangerous Putin apologist (despite his company Starlink providing internet to Ukraine at a cost of $20 million a month). It happens that Musk is not the only Silicon Valley mogul who has come under fire for taking a realist line on the conflict.

In fact, a friend of Musk’s, David Sacks, wrote an article in which he alleged the West had entered into “Woke War III”. Over the course of the war, the woke Left and the neoconservative Right have been marching in lockstep, and using “woke cancellation tactics” to suppress any dissenting opinions.

Sacks, a multimillionaire venture capitalist and host of the hit podcast ‘All-In’ expands on his thinking in UnHerdTV’s latest interview, recorded 26th October 2022.

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