The co-founder of venture capital firm a16z, also known as Andreessen Horowitz, said social isolation remains a common punishment for those who think differently about certain left-wing circles in the tech mecca.

Andreessen said the same rifts that have divided the country have caused a rift in the once monolithic Democratic stronghold this year, as nearly every demographic group has abandoned the party to varying degrees.

“We are probably going through the first deep political realignment since the 1960s,” Andreessen said in an interview with Joe Rogan on Tuesday, arguing that Republicans are now the party of common sense, not war, and of the working class.

Fearing that he would be written off as a “crazy right-winger” for daring to celebrate it being “morning in America” ​​now that Trump had won the election, the co-creator of the world’s first mainstream internet browser said that – just like many others – constituencies that traditionally supported Democrats – effectively defected from the party.

“I was a Democrat in good standing,” he said, having previously supported Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry and Barack Obama.

He even talked about the shock and sadness he felt at a dinner with other Silicon Valley friends immediately after Trump’s first victory. They had all voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, including Andreessen herself.

Despite that long-standing voting record, his decision to back Trump now in the race for Kamala Harris has resulted in the doors being figuratively slammed in his face.

“This is actually true: There are two kinds of dinner parties in Silicon Valley now — they’re broken neatly in half,” Andreessen told Rogan in a three-hour podcast interview.

On the one hand, there are rallies he can still attend, where he can encounter other new Trump supporters like Elon Musk.

But his presence is no longer welcome among what he called the “coastal elites.”

“There are the ones where everyone there believes everything that was in there New York Times that day… and they talk about it at dinner,” Andreessen claimed. “And I’m no longer invited to that, and I don’t want to go there anymore.”

‘Lockstep Compliance’

Andreessen’s departure from the Democratic Party stemmed primarily — but not exclusively — from what he called the Biden administration’s attempt to destroy his company through the regulation of crypto, where a16z is the largest venture capital firm.

Instead of ensuring the state leveled the playing field so it could focus on calling balls and strikes, he alleged that federal agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), all attempted to directly control outcomes in various ways.

He claims that the aim was to ensure that only a small number of large companies would survive, and that they all agreed to be fully regulated and controlled by the government.

“We had meetings this spring that were the most alarming meetings where (regulators) walked us through their plans: basically just full government control,” he claimed. “They told us, ‘Just don’t start startups, don’t even bother, there’s no way they can succeed, no way we’re going to let that happen.’”

One tactic he claimed he personally witnessed was the federal government’s attempt to coerce his business partners and even the father of his own partner, author and fellow Trump supporter David Horowitz, by squeezing banks to completely withdraw their access to the financial system.

Andreessen said the party would no longer tolerate dissent within its ranks, instead demanding conformity enforced through cancel culture, effectively reducing Democrats to a religious sect without the chance for redemption.

“You could call it ‘soft totalitarianism,’ which is nothing more than rules and power exercised arbitrarily and that simply oppress everything,” he continued, citing de-banking as just one example.

If Democrats ever want to pull themselves out of the mess they find themselves in, Andreessen advised them to promote prominent far-left critics, such as New York Congressman Ritchie Torres, to leadership positions.

Fortune contacted the White House for comment but did not receive a response.