Seeing a sudden surge in interest in the “Tech Right” as they’re being dubbed. Often the focus is on business motivations like tax breaks but I think there’s more to it. The narrative that silicon Valley is a bunch of tech hippies was well sown early on, particularly by Stewart Brand and his ilk but throughout that period and prior, the intersection between tech and authoritative politics that favours systems over people is well established.
They’re in for a rude awakening because the MAGAs are going to turn off the cheap supply of geniuses from China and India in the name of America First.
There will be exceptions and backpedaling for the holders of the purse strings. The working-class xenophobia will simultaneously be stoked just like before. They can rationalize both.