“I’ve been a Democrat my whole life,” Karp told Politico, which noted that he called the Democratic Party “totally irresponsible” in the distant time of October 2025. “I know more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet, and I absolutely believe Palantir—all of our products are essentially progressive.” This isn’t the first time Karp has called himself a progressive. In 2018, The New York Times reported that Karp described himself as such.