Former PayPal president David Marcus has announced that he will be leaving the Democrat Party and endorsing former President Donald Trump.
Marcus, who also previously served as VP of Messaging Products at Facebook, declared his support for Trump in a Wednesday post on X, becoming the latest influential person to join the MAGA movement.
“Many — including a former version of myself — get trapped in a mental framework that becomes their identity and prevents them from radically evolving their thinking with new facts and information. I finally broke free from it,” he explained.
“I am crossing the Rubicon and backing the Republican Party and President Trump,” Marcus added.
He went on to identify 2019 as the pivotal year for his political transformation, revealing what he learned while speaking with lawmakers and regulators about the Libra project during his time at Meta.
“I was shocked to learn that, for the most part, Republicans cared more deeply about their constituents, while Democrats, in my experience, cared more about government power and control,” Marcus explained.
Like many other disaffected liberals, the COVID pandemic caused another massive shift in his views — citing the “censorship machine” suppressing the truth about COVID’s origins and preventing people from speaking against vaccines and lockdowns.
“I fully appreciated why Republicans value freedom of speech and preventing censorship,” he wrote.
He also pointed to Democrats’ suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story and the attempts to hide President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.
“These examples displayed the hubris of the current Dem leadership,” he said. “You must think the American people are fools to believe the spin on these issues. I despise this elite vs. general population ideology viscerally.”
Marcus went on to explain his newfound opposition to the Democrat Party’s “departure from the core American value system of meritocracy, an extreme and weaponized DEI agenda, an open door to massive illegal immigration, and a once-fringe narrative, now mainstream within the party, of vilifying success.” However, he does still agree with the Democrats on a few issues, especially abortion.
He then highlighted what he believes are necessary qualities for a president — stating that they must be “unequivocally pro: America, the Constitution, business, Bitcoin/crypto, innovation, Israel, small government, legal immigration, free speech, meritocracy, and common sense — and anti: regulatory proliferation, illegal immigration, unjust wars, Iran’s current regime, and domestic groups that oppose American values.”
“These issues are central to President Trump’s platform,” Marcus noted.
He further spoke about Trump’s attempted assassination, writing: “The courage and resolve he displayed seconds after being hit by a bullet was awe-inspiring for his followers and detractors alike. This was a man, however imperfect, who, at that moment, incarnated the American spirit in the most vivid way, starting to bring a split nation together.”
“In this pivotal moment, confronted with the choices we have, I am endorsing and supporting a return to a Republican administration in 2025,” he concluded.
I am crossing the Rubicon and backing the Republican Party and President Trump.
Many — including a former version of myself — get trapped in a mental framework that becomes their identity and prevents them from radically evolving their thinking with new facts and information. I…
— David Marcus (@davidmarcus) July 31, 2024
Marcus is not the first member of the Silicon Valley elite to switch parties, as Fox News host Maria Bartiromo recently spoke with Jacob Hellberg, a major Democrat donor and senior policy advisor at Palantir, about his decision to back Trump.
🇺🇸 Jacob Hellberg, CEO of Palentir, WALKS AWAY: Deep blue turning red‼️
Prominent Democrat donor, Jacob Hellberg, senior policy advisor at Palentir and Stanford university center on geopolitics and technology – Now supports President Trump.
👉 The Democrat party got hijacked by… pic.twitter.com/jLm3W6WB3l
— Jake (@JakeCan72) June 17, 2024