An election season is always a good time to take the political temperature in the tech world, and this year it definitely feels like Silicon Valley — a traditional bastion of Democratic support — is swinging right.
Loud-mouths like Elon Musk have been leading a vociferous campaign against the president. And as FT colleagues in San Francisco and Washington DC have recently noted, the tech world’s pro-Trump faction seems bigger and is certainly louder in this election cycle than in 2020 or 2016.
But the high-decibel cacophony coming from the Valley makes it easy to read too much into this. I’m guessing I’m not the only one who sees Elon’s ravings at the top of the page every time I look at X. (I’m also guessing I’m not the only one who goes there less often — whatever your political views. Who has the emotional energy for so much hate and trolling?)