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For Silicon Valley leaders, cozying up to the Trump administration has led to a series of spectacular failures.
First published in The Atlantic on November 10, 2026.
Over the past week, following MAGA’s significant losses in the midterms, I have been asked the same questions again and again: How could Silicon Valley have gotten it so wrong? Why did tech leaders not anticipate the consequences of joining themselves at the hip to MAGA straight after Donald Trump won reelection in 2024?
