The Trojan Horse That Snuck Through MAGA’s Gates
The tech right now has an outsized influence on the U.S. government and the second Trump administration.
MAGA embraced the “tech right,” the network of right-wing, anti-woke Silicon Valley executives and venture capitalists, in the 2024 election because they shared a common foe: the left. The tech right now has an outsized influence on the U.S. government and the second Trump administration. And, day by day, their power grows, to the detriment of not only the American people, but our very system of constitutional government.
Conservatives seemed enthusiastic to welcome Silicon Valley elites into the fold, including Elon Musk, namely because they promised to use their cutthroat management skills and startup expertise to trim the fat of the federal bureaucracy and make the government more efficient and cost-effective. It was a compelling argument: the federal government was, and still is, despite the efforts of DOGE, woefully sclerotic, incompetent, and wasteful.