Tech bosses shouldnt turn on Trump, hes the only one who will stand up against Dems anti-tech agenda
Just a few years after Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg marshaled behind Donald Trump at his inauguration, questions are mounting about whether tech titans will stick with the Republicans now that the party has lost Congress and could be poised to lose power altogether in 2028.Sources say another realignment is coming, but not a wholesale swing back to the left.While AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI may lean further left, defense tech, crypto and some tech giants increasingly see conservatives as their only allies and their best defense against an anti-tech progressive agenda that is already seeking to restrict them —and also tanking tech stocks.Following the election, Rep.
Yassamin Ansari, a progressive from Arizona said, “Top of the Democratic agenda on Day 1 needs to be a pause on advanced AI development, regulation of this out-of-control industry, and a ban on artificial superintelligence.”Another Democrat, Rep.Ted Lieu of California, said in the wake of the blue tsunami that the Trump administration and House Republicans “made a conscious decision to let the AI industry run wild,” adding: “Two things will change next term.
We will hold public hearings on AI.We will pass legislation and reasonable guardrails on AI.”Such reactions have been a wake-up call to techies, even those who lean left, who thought they could wend their way back into the Democrats’ good graces.“The Right may be the only option — and the only way to defend against an anti-tech agenda,” said one source who advises tech companies.
“Executives realize that distancing themselves from Trump won’t necessarily make Amazon any more popular with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Elizabeth Warren.”Crypto executives also recognize Democrats will target them relentlessly.The prospect of renewed scrutiny gives them a reason to keep fighting for allies in Washington rather than assume they can retreat from politics.“If tech executives want to stay in th...