The standard playbook for neutralizing a regulatory critic is consultation: invite them into working groups, make them a stakeholder, let the process dilute the urgency. That playbook fails when the critic has already been inside. Alex Bores worked at Palantir before concluding that government oversight was necessary — which means he arrived at his regulatory position through exactly the kind of technical depth the industry uses to dismiss outside critics as uninformed. The spending coordinated by AI heavyweights and Silicon Valley financiers to defeat his congressional bid is a direct…