Tech titan who backed Trump brutally skewered after elections U-turn: Pandering POS

The midterm elections this month saw a Democratic blowout of GOP candidates even in deep-red territory — and now, one tech figure who once buddied up to President Trump seems to be changing his tune accordingly.Palantir CEO Alex Karp, in a new interview with Politico, bragged about his lefty bona fides and claimed he’d back a Democrat for president, sparking widespread mockery for the seemingly shameless flip-flop.“I’ve been a Democrat my whole life.I grew up in a far left environment.

I know more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet, and I absolutely believe Palantir — all of our products are essentially progressive,” Karp said.It was only a year ago that many had viewed him as a right-wing ally.Karp’s company Palantir Technologies, a secretive data analytics giant, had contracts with the Trump Administration that included assisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the now-shuttered Department of Government Efficiency.He even claimed that his company was the first to be “completely anti-woke” last year, alongside multiple instances where he has defended Republican President Trump.The New Hampshire-born tech exec even once blasted the Dems as “completely irresponsible.” “He has clearly shifted to the right, although he would probably say that he didn’t leave the left — the left left him,” Michael Steinberger, author of “The Philosopher in the Valley,” told The New York Post last year.But now, after the midterms, Karp told Politico that Democrats “absolutely” corrected in 2026 enough to win back his support in 2028.

The data analytics boss, who’s worth an estimated $18 billion, clarified he will not back any member of the Democratic Socialists of America.But he also mused to Politico about the failures of capitalism.

“‘What are you gonna do about economic justice in this country?’ And I would say the Democrats have an advantage here because for many Republicans there’s an orthodoxy that ...