Well, that didn’t take long.
Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp is executing a rapid political rebrand just days after Democrats seized majorities in the House and Senate.
In a Wednesday interview with Politico’s Playbook, the billionaire tech executive described himself as a “lifelong Democrat” who grew up in a far-left environment, claimed he “knows more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet,” and insisted that “Palantir — all of our products are essentially progressive.”
He reportedly used the word “progressive” eight times and left the door open to supporting a Democrat in 2028, provided the nominee is not a Democratic Socialists of America figure.
The timing has not gone unnoticed. Just months earlier, Karp had positioned Palantir as “the first company to be completely anti-woke,” criticized Democrats as “totally irresponsible” on immigration and Iran, and argued that his company’s AI tools would reduce the economic and political power of “humanities-trained, largely Democratic voters” while boosting vocationally trained working-class men.
In a March CNBC appearance covered by The Gateway Pundit, he described the technology as societally “dangerous” yet necessary for America to prevail.
He has also defended Trump administration priorities, including strikes on suspected drug boats, while declaring that open borders hurt average Americans.
