SuperPac of Wolves

“Their aim is to help tech leaders become as powerful in Washington, D.C., and in state legislatures as they are on Wall Street. It is likely that in the coming decades these efforts will affect everything from Presidential races to which party controls Congress and how antitrust and artificial intelligence are regulated. Now that the tech industry has quietly become one of the most powerful lobbying forces in American politics, it is wielding that power as previous corporate special interests have: to bully, cajole, and remake the nation as it sees fit.” The always-excellent Charles Duhigg in The New Yorker on Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster. The goal is not just to defeat candidates who are (often falsely) believed to present opposition. It’s to scare the hell out of everyone else.