The ‘Tech Left’ Is Different This Time
One factor is the knock-on effects of a Biden administration that put the tech industry in its crosshairs and made Trump a lesser evil to some. Mergers that would have given workers a windfall were snarled by regulators. The administration’s hard-line stance on cryptocurrency stirred resentment and frustration. “The only reason Silicon Valley was split in the past election was the spectacular own goal the Biden administration scored by alienating so many people in it,” Graham wrote to me in an email. “Now that the Democrats have (mostly) stopped trying to attack tech, SV should revert to its historical mostly-Democratic norm.” He added: “I think the tech left will tend naturally to reassemble.”
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