'Lost its lunch': Tech expert sees MAGA in panic after waking up to hostile takeover
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'Lost its lunch': Tech expert sees MAGA in panic after waking up to hostile takeover

Raw Story  

Adam Lashinsky, a former executive editor at Fortune and the author of an insider book about Apple, has a warning for Trump supporters who are just waking up to the fact that their movement is facing a hostile takeover from Silicon Valley tycoons. Writing in the Washington Post, Lashinsky highlights the tensions between MAGA activists such as Steve Bannon and Laura Loomer and the band of Trump-backing billionaires led by X owner Elon Musk. "It’s important to understand that self-interest is a foundational ethos in Silicon Valley, a place where boys who read science fiction in their bedrooms and then Ayn Rand in their college dorms grew up to be today’s Masters of the Universe." Given this, he continues, "it was just a matter of time before the anti-immigration crowd lost its lunch," despite the fact that Musk and fellow billionaires such as Peter Thiel and Marc Andreesen purportedly pledged their fealty to the MAGA cause over the last year.

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