Democrats
also referred to as: democrat
74 statements across 61 episodes · 9 bullish · 41 bearish · 24 people on the record · first statement Oct 3, 2020 by David Sacks · across every show →
Everything said about Democrats, oldest first
Oct 3, 2020 negative
Oct 16, 2020 positive
Sacks supports establishing 18-year term limits for Supreme Court justices
“And there's been a recent proposal by Democrats that I would support, which basically says, listen, we should have an 18 year term for Supreme Court justice. That's long enough. And each president should get two nominees, like one in the first year and then on…”
Nov 4, 2020 negative
Nov 4, 2020 bearish
Nov 11, 2020 bearish
Friedberg: Market could drop 30-40% if Democrats win Georgia runoffs
“If the Democrats look like they're getting much more money into the state and they're actually gonna, you know, get people to the polls and to the voting booths and actually get into this runoff on January fifth and actually flip get both of those seats to be …”
Nov 11, 2020
Jan 8, 2021 positive
Calacanis: Impeaching Trump is right to prevent a 2024 presidential run
“If you are impeached successfully, you can't run again. So I think that this is a way to put the nail in the coffin of Trump even having the ability to run in twenty-twenty-four, which I think is why the Democrats are on the right side of history on this one.”
May 1, 2021 positive
Jun 13, 2021 negative
Jul 16, 2021 neutral
Oct 30, 2021 negative
Chamath: Billionaire tax targets Democratic tech founders over Republican private fortunes
“The Democrats are writing a bill that will disproportionately tax democratic successful billionaires. And it'll leave intact the Kochs, who is literally the boogeyman to the progressive left who wants to write this bill.”
Dec 17, 2021 bearish
Dec 29, 2021 bearish
David Sacks predicts a Republican wave forces Nancy Pelosi to retire
“My pick for biggest political loser next year is Nancy Pelosi. I, there's a red wave coming. The Democrats for sure are going to lose the house that is baked into the cake. And I predict she will announce for retirement shortly after that.”
Jan 15, 2022 bearish
Sacks predicts a Democratic midterm landslide defeat if focused on Jan 6
“And if you and the Democrats keep talking about this and focus on it, on MSNBC, to the exclusion of the issues that really matter I'll see you in November because you're gonna get slaughtered in this midterm election. It's gonna be a landslide.”
Feb 5, 2022 bearish
Feb 5, 2022
Feb 12, 2022 negative
Sacks: Alienating Joe Rogan is political foolishness for the Democratic Party
“He's a really stupid person for the Democrats, for Democratic politicians like Biden to alienate because he's a hero to young people, he's a hero to the working class, and his views are fundamentally, I'd say, more progressive.”
Apr 1, 2022 bearish
May 16, 2022 neutral
May 27, 2022 negative
May 28, 2022 negative
May 28, 2022 neutral
May 28, 2022
May 30, 2022
Jun 2, 2022 neutral
Sacks: Democrats now represent professional elites while Republicans become populist working-class
“Historically the Democrats were the party of the working class. They are now much more the party of the professional class. And they buy into the belief set of sort of the college educated, the, you know, the, those sort of, you call it the woke sensibility. A…”
Jun 24, 2022 negative
Jul 22, 2022 negative
Aug 5, 2022 bearish
Jun 2, 2023 neutral
Jun 2, 2023 negative
Jun 10, 2023 neutral
Nov 17, 2023
Dec 29, 2023 neutral
Apr 5, 2024 bearish
Chamath: Republican administration will not significantly reopen big tech M&A
“I think the Democrats and the Republicans are really well aligned here. They don't like deals, and I don't think you're going to see a big sea change. They hate big tech for different reasons, but they equally want to slow them down.”
Apr 26, 2024 negative
May 31, 2024 neutral
May 31, 2024 bearish
Jun 29, 2024 negative
Sep 10, 2024 negative
Vance: Low GDP growth drives political dysfunction in the US
“When the economy is growing four, five, six percent a year, then Democrats can kind of get what they want, Republicans can kind of get what they want, and it all makes sense. If the economy is growing between zero and one percent a year, then I think it makes …”
Sep 12, 2024 neutral
Sep 16, 2024 negative
Sep 17, 2024 negative
Nov 1, 2024 negative
Nov 8, 2024 positive
Nov 8, 2024 bearish
Nov 23, 2024 negative
Jan 19, 2025 negative
Jan 20, 2025 neutral
Jan 20, 2025 negative
Emmer: Democratic Party replaced Biden with Harris via back-room coup
“How the Democrats are able to remove Joe Biden, literally in a coup, a back room coup, and install Kamala Harris in a matter of hours or days and avoid any convention like real democracy taking place where people are debating their candidates and where they're…”
Jan 20, 2025 positive
Pincus: Political campaigns will require authentic, long-form candidate media presence
“We're, we have a new way of doing politics after this election, that there's only authentic, like, only long form, and you, you're gonna have, you're, even the Democrats aren't gonna be able to field a candidate that isn't the full color”
Jan 28, 2025 positive
Dalio: US is financially better off under Trump than Biden
“Yes, I do believe we are in the financial context, because in terms of profitability and the likelihood of cutting, I think the Republicans are probably more likely to make these moves than the Democrats, but you also have to take into consideration the impact…”
Feb 7, 2025
Mar 8, 2025
Mar 15, 2025 negative
Andrew Schulz: Republicans message far better than Democrats due to clearer slogans
“I think this is what Republicans are doing way better than Democrats right now is like Democrats don't have build the wall. They don't have slogans. They don't have things that immediately tap into like core emotional feeling”
Apr 11, 2025
Apr 11, 2025 negative
May 3, 2025 negative
May 4, 2025
Rollins: Conservatives lose years in government lacking bureaucratic know-how
“The Democrats are really good. The left is really good at government. We, our side, is really good at raising families and building business, and so this happens every time that we're put into government. We have a team of people that have the best intentions,…”
Jun 13, 2025 negative
Aug 15, 2025 negative
Aug 21, 2025 neutral
Oct 2, 2025 negative
Khanna says Biden administration allowed too many people without proper border security
“We need a secure border. The border let, we let in too many people under the Biden administration without having the proper security. I think the Democrats need to acknowledge that, own up to that, and say that we need to make sure that there are there is a se…”
Oct 10, 2025 bearish
Nov 7, 2025 negative
Feb 13, 2026 bearish
Friedberg: Democratic wins in 2028 will trigger federal pension bailouts
“If you end up with a Democrat controlled house and a Democrat president, In 20, 28, you'll very likely see a federalization of that obligation, meaning that the federal government will step in to bail out or support those state and local governments”
Mar 13, 2026 negative
Mar 18, 2026 positive
Mar 18, 2026 negative
May 15, 2026 neutral
Jun 10, 2026 positive
Jun 27, 2026 neutral
Jun 29, 2026 positive
Jun 29, 2026
Nate Silver: Conditional on winning Senate, Democrats almost certainly win House
“They're almost perfectly correlated. So if the odds of Democrats winning the Senate, but not the House are like one percent, if you go to Kalshi or Polymarket, whatever else, they have to be like around one percent. So conditional on Democrats winning the Sena…”
Jun 29, 2026
Nate Silver: Democrats have an 85% to 90% chance to take the House
“Prediction markets say Democrats are around, I think, 80 or 85% to take the House and 40 or 45% to take the Senate. Those both seem pretty reasonable to me. I think, if anything, it's a little bit low on the House. I think it might be more like 85 or 90.”