Left
topic on 3 shows · 10 statements across 9 episodes
American Optimist 
the a16z Podcast 
All-In
10 statements about Left, every show
Lonsdale: Protesters targeting Palantir are paid by the political left
“The protesters get paid by the left to do it, but then they're actually just encouraging you.”
Tornberg: Republicans must become the establishment while Democrats adopt subversive tactics
“The right has to learn how to sort of evolve from the underdog who's always questioning to the establishment to, can you actually get things done? And move the needle and the left has to learn a little bit of some of these tactics that, that the right used whe…”
Haidt: The political left is beyond hope after years of trying to advise them
“I spent so many years trying to help the left using moral psychology so that they would stop losing elections, and I finally decided they're beyond hope.”
Haidt: Conservatism in every era is a reaction to left-wing excesses
“Conservatism in every era is a reaction to the excesses of the left.”
Leo: The Warren Court Used the Law as a Political Tool
“The left began to use the law as a really serious driver for social change. And you know, the Warren court played right into that and began to use law as a political tool.”
Solana: There is as much antisemitism on the right as the left
“Where you see, I see just as much anti-Semitism from the right as the left.”
Tucker Carlson: Rhetoric inspiring racial hatred originates from the political left
“On the race stuff, which is what matters over time, if you convince people to hate others on the basis of their race, you've committed a massive sin, and you've done a lot to wreck our country, that's coming from the left.”
Silver: Political left and right are becoming increasingly authoritarian
“Both the left and the right have become more authoritarian in certain ways. I think the type of authoritarianism on the right It's quite a bit more dangerous in the moment, but, ah, they're both kind of moving away from kind of liberalism in some kind of class…”
Chamath: Dangerous authoritarianism tends to come from the political left
“The scary authoritarianism, as we talked about in previous pods, tends to come from the left.”
Kanelos: Political asymmetry is a root problem in modern higher education
“I think the problem, one of the root problems today in higher education, which is endemic to the culture at large, is, is not so much that everybody, most people, almost everybody in higher education is on one end of the political spectrum, the left, it's the …”