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If you asked a similar question today—is there a new Silicon Valley politics?— it would be pretty clear that libertarianism is no longer the answer. (Sixty-two percent of the tech elite told the Stanford researchers that government should not tightly regulate business but should tax the wealthy to fund social programs.) The scholars Brink Lindsey and Steven Teles argue that the tech sector has actually stumbled into attitudes that approach a more coherent ideology than it would initially appear, one they have called “liberaltarianism.” Lindsey, who is vice president for policy at the Niskanen Center—a think tank that supports liberaltarian policies—describes the ideology as one animated by “the idea of a free-market welfare state, which sounds like an oxymoron to most people but sounds to us like what good 21st-century governance looks like, combining significant redistribution and social spending with go-go competitive markets.” This is the new politics bubbling up in Silicon Valley. Now, his vision for a new model of governance broke decisively from the anti-statism that had defined Barlow’s declaration a decade before. (“Government can work for the people, by the people, in the digital age.”) Code for America’s ideology is fundamentally practical—“delivery driven,” as Pahlka puts it. “You think about advocacy in this country,” Pahlka says, “the win is getting the law passed. Not these other people who came after you. This time, Khanna won. But since Khanna has entered Congress, he’s become even more vocal about his progressive views. But even Khanna’s EITC expansion plan is less radical than universal basic income, a form of wealth redistribution that has become something of a fetish among some big names in the tech sector.

In a series of statements, Democratic leaders said that their version of the memo, authored by Democrats on the committee and led by ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), debunked claims made by Republicans and exposed inaccuracies in the GOP memo. “The Democratic response memo released today should put to rest any concerns that the American people might have as to the conduct of the FBI, the Justice Department and the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]," Schiff wrote. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) went further in her statement, calling on Republicans to end "political charades" surrounding the Russia investigation following the memo's release. In the upper chamber, Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee accused Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), who authored the GOP memo, and other Republicans of trying "mislead" Americans about the conduct of top law enforcement agencies for "partisan political" purposes. In his statement, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) lashed out at President Trump, who he accused of silencing Democratic opposition by delaying the release of the Democratic memo until redactions were made. Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu (Calif.) agreed with Schumer in a tweet, calling the redactions requested by the White House and Justice Department "unnecessary." I can say that the redacted materials all support the boldfaced points," Lieu tweeted. https://t.co/UTfRhV7GIC — Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) February 24, 2018 Nunes's Democratic challenger used the memo's release to attack his Republican opponent, saying that Nunes must be voted out of office before he could further undermine law enforcement. https://t.co/z9YVvzMMio — Andrew Janz (@JanzforCongress) February 24, 2018 The Democratic memo was released after days of negotiations between committee Democrats and the Justice Department over redactions of classified material. A final version posted Saturday on the House Intelligence Committee's website countered Republican claims about the FBI's investigation of the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Russia, and accused Nunes of cherry-picking information to mislead Americans while not reading the underlying documents.