Who, specifically, are you referring to; and what have they done or said to make you believe that they support this?
Wealthy people who could be coined liberal-tarians or just your average tech bro political grab bag largely backed Trump out of financial interest and who, imo, deluded themselves that the administration would be unsuccessful at "the bad stuff" much like his 2016 run.
No amount of shouting from the rooftops that this time was actually different convinced anyone. I can't really blame us collectively, we resoundingly voted for this— it's as much of a mandate you're likely to ever get in the US and we're in the find out stage of fucking around.
Looking back on old social media posts the theme is that everyone, supporters and not, were high on copium that Trump would do <list of things I like | aren't so bad> and the <list of truly terrible things> was just obviously crazy and wouldn't actually happen or were a joke.
Who specifically was the question.
This isn't really a hard list to compile.
* Paul Graham
* Mark Zuckerberg
* The Ghost of Elon Musk before he fell down the alt right pipeline and now is no longer liberal-tarian.
* Sundar Pichai
* Jeff Bezos
* Sam Altman
* Jensen Huang
* Tim Cook
A who's who of people who felt their businesses were being threatened by the Biden administration with a starry-eyed view of how this next round might benefit them and being in denial of the crazy.
> have they done or said to make you believe that they support this?
Most of those people are just cowardly bending to corruption, which is not the same thing as what was originally asked for.
Many of those probably wanted Biden to win but don't want to antagonize Trump after he won. If I had to guess there at least Sundar and Bezos didn't want Trump to win
Elon and his loud hangers-on in the VC community have made SV look a lot more MAGA than it is
Trying to psychoanalyze billionaires from afar is a losing game.
If we're going to judge these folks, judge them by their words and actions.
Most of them didn't have words one way or another during the campaign, the post I replied was suggesting they got what they want, I guess that was some psychoanalysis too
> we resoundingly voted for this— it's as much of a mandate you're likely to ever get in the US
Trump received a minority of the popular vote. The 1.5% margin was slim compared to recent elections even.
Well, the good news is that there's a very convenient link at the bottom of the page here on HN for the AI startup school [1] which is host to a bunch of people that you should recognize.
Not an answer to my question.
It is actually, unless you are unable to parse information without being spoon fed to you.