At a glance, Ro Khanna’s political profile seems rife with ideological tensions, if not outright contradictions. The Democratic congressman, whose district encompasses much of Silicon Valley, is a voluble capitalist who also happens to have co-chaired Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign; an avowed progressive who revels in plaudits he’s received from Steve Bannon and speaks admiringly about Marjorie Taylor Greene; and a self-advertised pal of tech bro plutocrats such as Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen who calls for hiking taxes on the rich while railing against Donald Trump’s administration as “government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires.”