In the post-Trump era (i.e., over the coming years after early 2021), the dominant emerging fault line in American politics will increasingly be framed as 'insider vs. outsider' rather than traditional 'left vs. right,' and this insider–outsider framing will become a major recurring theme in national political discourse.
“And so what you're seeing now is a new fault line in American politics in the post-Trump era. It's not just about left and right anymore. It's about insider versus outsider. And I think this is going to be a major, major theme that we see.”
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Anti-establishment and populist "outsider" rhetoric did grow more prominent on both the left and right in the following years, but traditional left-right partisan polarization remained the dominant organizing frame of US politics through the 2022 and 2024 cycles rather than being displaced by an insider-outsider axis.
Over the years following early 2021, a substantial political movement will develop across the United States in which voters increasingly oust incumbent 'insider' officeholders and elect new candidates who campaign explicitly on not being beholden to entrenched special interests.
“we are going to see a movement of people across this country who are sick and tired of the insiders game, and they're going to rise up and vote these insiders out of office and put in some new people who aren't beholden to these powerful special interests.”
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No broad anti-incumbent wave materialized; US House incumbent reelection rates remained above 90% in both the 2022 and 2024 elections, and most entrenched officeholders retained their seats.
Over the coming years, a large number of mid‑level tech workers (the “massive middle,” including developers) will move out of the Bay Area/California to lower‑tax, lower‑cost locations such as Reno and Austin, significantly reducing the region’s mid‑tier tech workforce.
“you could have this massive middle leave too, that nobody anticipates. And if all the developers said, you know what, I want to be on the Reno side of Lake Tahoe. You know, I want to be in Austin or wherever. I'm paying less taxes, and I'm making the same money, and I got a better quality of life.”
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A substantial migration of tech workers and companies out of the Bay Area did occur in the following years; IRS migration data show Texas as the top destination state for departing Californians in both 2021 and 2022, with Austin's Travis County a consistently top-five destination, and companies like Tesla and Oracle relocating headquarters there.
New York State and California are on a long‑term economic and social decline (“death spiral”) that will continue unless their governments materially change course to represent residents’ interests over special interests.
“I think it's a death spiral for New York and for California, where unless the representatives in government start to represent the people who are voting and living there and voting their interests as opposed to the special interest...”
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California and New York did see notable population and high-earner outmigration in 2021-2023, but both states' economies stabilized rather than entering a full collapse, and this hedged, conditional "unless government changes course" prediction has no clean resolution point.
Within the near future (“pretty soon”), the only remaining middle‑class Californians earning over $100,000 per year will mainly be government workers, because most private‑sector middle‑class earners will have left the state due to taxes and regulatory burden.
“The only middle class is going to be left in California pretty soon. Uh, our government workers, I mean, that's it. That's the only people going to be making over $100,000 a year in California. Are the government workers, because everyone who's middle class, who's running a business is just is finding it too difficult and too difficult to earn with the level of taxation and to run their business. And they're. ... leaving.”
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California continued to have a large private-sector population earning well over $100,000, particularly concentrated in its tech industry; the claim that only government workers would remain in that income bracket did not materialize.
In episode 21 of the All‑In podcast (the episode immediately following this one), the show will open with the hosts reading mean tweets about themselves.
“The next, the next, um, podcast. Um, just for everybody to know, uh, episode 21, we are going to start by reading mean tweets.”
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No publicly available transcript or summary could be found confirming whether All-In episode 21 specifically opened with the hosts reading mean tweets, so this narrow logistical claim could not be verified either way.