The prominent technology entrepreneur has announced that he is leaving the Democratic Party and supporting President Donald Trump.
David Marcus is a co-founder of Facebook
Abandoned Diem, a cryptocurrency venture capitalist who ran Facebook Messenger for many years and was also president of PayPal, is now CEO of cryptocurrency startup LightSpark.
While acknowledging that he would inevitably face backlash and criticism from the media and former allies, Marcus made it clear:
essay X On Wednesday, Trump said he would be “crossing the Rubicon” and joining a growing roster of wealthy entrepreneurs eager to return competence, stability and strength to the White House.
According to Marcus, the Democratic establishment’s censorious response, insincerity, disastrous “DEI agenda,” indifference to illegal immigration, and failed foreign policy hastened his path to becoming a Lincolnite, a path marked by “disillusionment, an eye-opening process of zero-basing and rebuilding lifelong beliefs.”
“Many people become trapped in the mental framework that defines their identity, including their former self, and are unable to radically evolve their thinking with new facts and information. I’ve finally broken free,” Marcus writes.
Marcus began by acknowledging that for a long time he had been stuck in the idea that the Democratic Party was all about serving the people.
This belief led him to want to help the Democratic National Committee extort money from Silicon Valley executives after the 2016 presidential election to build “a CRM and tech platform to prevent a repeat of Hillary Clinton’s inadequate and outdated 2016 campaign.”
But over time, Marcus said, he was “shocked to learn that Republicans care more about their constituents, while Democrats care more about power and control of government.”
Marcus also came to understand and fully appreciate exactly why “the Republican Party cares so much about free speech and preventing censorship,” an issue he has occasionally questioned.
Spoken in recent years.
During the pandemic, Marcus saw how criticism of vaccines and lockdowns was silenced and how the virus’s likely laboratory origins were actively covered up, and his sense of alienation grew as he realized this curation of private and public narratives was not limited to public health issues.
“This tendency to fabricate and concoct parallel realities to fit the Democratic Party’s agenda has been reinforced by a complicit mainstream media that has used the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, the systematic smear campaign against President Trump and his supporters, and President Biden’s declining cognitive abilities to deprive voters of a proper primary voice,” Marcus wrote.
In addition to lamenting the Democratic Party’s loose relationship with truth, Marcus suggested that the failed foreign policy of the Biden-Harris administration and Democrats’ fostering of an “anti-innovation regulatory environment, particularly around cryptocurrency and soon AI,” were catalysts for crossing the political divide.
On foreign policy, Marcus criticized the Democratic administration for seeking to exacerbate tensions with Russia “through an aggressive NATO expansion rhetoric focused on Ukraine and the prolongation of unwinnable wars,” as well as for suggesting the depletion of U.S. military arsenals, a lethal withdrawal from Afghanistan, support for Iran, and a prolonged conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Marcus suggested that Trump would chart a different, and much-needed, course.
I believe we need a President who is clearly in support of America, the Constitution, business, Bitcoin/cryptocurrency, innovation, Israel, small government, legal immigration, free speech, meritocracy, and common sense, and who opposes regulatory expansion, illegal immigration, unjust wars, the current Iranian regime, and domestic groups that are hostile to American values. These issues are central to President Trump’s agenda.
According to the tech entrepreneur, Trump, who “embodied the American spirit in the most vivid way” in the wake of his shooting in an assassination attempt, is a far better choice than the alternative: “Allowing an unelected man with so much power and no accountability to run our government and continue four more years of bad policies at home and abroad.”
Marcus’ endorsement comes weeks after Tesla and X owner Elon Musk posted “I fully support President Trump and wish him a speedy recovery,” less than an hour after Trump survived an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Mark Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who run major venture capital firms in Silicon Valley,
Revealed Last month, they said they fully supported Trump.
Founder of Palantir
Joe LonsdalePershing Square Capital Management founder Bill Ackman, and other prominent figures in Silicon Valley and Wall Street supported Trump even before the assassination attempt.
Others may be keeping their cards close to their chest.
Bruce Freed, president and co-founder of the Center for Political Accountability, recently said:
Said The Christian Science Monitor said “many are very cautious” and keen to “leave the door open” to elements on both sides of the aisle.
Lonsdale I was grateful. Marcus was praised for his “intellectual courage.”
Others, including President Trump’s ally, Gen. Mike Flynn, I got it.“Now you’ll know if you have real friends.”
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