While libertarians supported Trump in order to be unregulated (AI, crypto) they will regret the decision when they are increasingly forced to give white supremacy a controlling seat at the board table (the other side of the coin, or as Paul Harvey says "the REST of the story")
People make such Faustian bargains. Research underlies Silicon Valley's growth and is its lifeblood. Here's one scientist's regret. And biomedical research is a powerful force behind valley entrepreneurship. [0]
> I am an NIH-funded biomedical scientist with conservative leanings. I know at least a dozen scientists (a small closeted minority) who voted for Trump, largely because of frustrations with DEI and extreme wokeness that had permeated every aspect of University life. Each one of us deeply regrets their vote for Trump and are utterly ashamed of it.
> We are absolutely horrified at how mindlessly destructive this admin has been to scientific institutions. They are single-handedly destroying the STEM dominance US established over decades.
> Average Americans simply do not realize that we are now on the verge of a precipitous decline in STEM. We all admit that the warnings about Trump/MAGA were on target, and the thing we argue about now is whether the damage is even reversible. All the Lefty overreach was annoying as hell but the MAGA disdain for science is 100X worse.
Those who do will in the first place have to be actual Libertarians. Most "libertarians" are Trumpies who somehow don't like calling themselves Trumpies and gladly support censorship and so on of "others". A very few of Libertarians are actually Libertarian, and they might or might not regret Trump today or at some future date.
People make such Faustian bargains. Research underlies Silicon Valley's growth and is its lifeblood. Here's one scientist's regret. And biomedical research is a powerful force behind valley entrepreneurship. [0]
> I am an NIH-funded biomedical scientist with conservative leanings. I know at least a dozen scientists (a small closeted minority) who voted for Trump, largely because of frustrations with DEI and extreme wokeness that had permeated every aspect of University life. Each one of us deeply regrets their vote for Trump and are utterly ashamed of it.
> We are absolutely horrified at how mindlessly destructive this admin has been to scientific institutions. They are single-handedly destroying the STEM dominance US established over decades.
> Average Americans simply do not realize that we are now on the verge of a precipitous decline in STEM. We all admit that the warnings about Trump/MAGA were on target, and the thing we argue about now is whether the damage is even reversible. All the Lefty overreach was annoying as hell but the MAGA disdain for science is 100X worse.
[0] https://bsky.app/profile/angrystaffer.bsky.social/post/3lkdx...