Right-wing techqueen launches 'moral crusade' to connect with 'MAGA land': report

Katherine Boyle — a close ally of Vice President J.D. Vance — has reportedly reframed Silicon Valley’s mission by directing venture‑capital into companies aligned with U.S. national interest in order to spur what MAGA sees as American renewal.

In an article for the New York Times published Sunday, journalist Julia Black explained that Boyle views the U.S. as stagnating: birthrates are falling, institutions are faltering, and bureaucracies and special interests are thwarting reform. She believes the pandemic created a disruptive opening to break the stagnation.

The article mentioned that Boyle launched a $600 million “American Dynamism” fund at the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, aimed at early‑stage businesses in defense, energy, education and manufacturing. Boyle argued that technology investment should do more than chase returns — it should serve a renewed national purpose.

According to the reporter, Boyle contends the path to American vitality is through “hard‑tech” and industrial sectors, rather than purely consumer or social software.

"Since 2022, Ms. Boyle’s investing thesis has snowballed into a new language of 'patriotic investing,' a crop of copycat funds across the industry and a rising class of politically conservative hard-tech founders who talk a lot about what America represents," Black wrote.

Black further explained that Boyle embeds this investment strategy in a cultural critique: she characterizes the U.S. crisis not primarily as economic but as “spiritual,” pointing to low fertility and innovation deficits as symptoms of a decline in faith, family and national ambition. She attributes many problems to what she sees as the dominance of left‑leaning ideology and calls for a return to Western, Judeo‑Christian values.

Black also traced how Boyle, once a minority voice in tech, has become a bridge between Silicon Valley and Washington, helping align tech‑industry investment with federal policy goals and conservative political networks.

"Thanks in part to her longstanding friendship with Vice President JD Vance, she has also become one of the tech world’s most reliable conduits to the Trump administration," the article said.

The article noted that some critics warn the “American Dynamism” rhetorical cover may mask a fusion of profit, nationalism and weaponry, raising questions about the balance between patriotic purpose and private gain.

'‘'American Dynamism’ cloaks itself as a moral crusade, but it’s an idolatry of wealth, nationalism and weaponry,' said Gil Duran, a journalist and the author of a forthcoming book, 'The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.' He compared Ms. Boyle’s movement to 'a Silicon Valley pitch-deck version of Christian nationalism.''

Ben Freeman, a director at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, told the Times that Boyle's approach has been "really appealing to MAGA land," and "a bridge to the tech world for that crowd."