MAGA populists call for holy war against Big Tech

• The MAGA right’s annual gathering, NatCon 5, featured a panel on the culture wars where tech industry representatives were criticized.
• Geoffrey Miller, a prominent MAGA figure, berated Shyam Sankar, Palantir’s chief technology officer and AI expert, during the panel discussion.
• Miller argued that the AI industry has no ideological overlap with national conservatism, which is the core ideology of the MAGA right.
• The criticism from Miller and other MAGA figures suggests a growing tension between the tech industry and the populist movement.
• The incident highlights the increasing polarization between those who see technology as a tool for social change and those who view it with skepticism or even hostility.

If you wanted a sense of the current relationship between the tech right and the populists, you had to be sitting in Breakout Room C on the first day of NatCon 5, the annual gathering of the MAGA right’s powerhouses. At the end of the afternoon panel on the culture wars (“The Need for Heroism”), Geoffrey Miller was handed the mic and started berating one of the panelists: Shyam Sankar, the chief technology officer of Palantir, who is in charge of the company’s AI efforts.

“I argue that the AI industry shares virtually no ideological overlap with national conservatism,” Miller said, referring to the conference’s core ideology. Hours ago, Mil …

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