Drum lives in Irvine. He's not a Bay Area mega-NIMBY. I think it's true Ds went after tech differently. But so did Rs. Under Trump is where tech antitrust began. Trump disliked crypto his first term. 1/

Previously, both parties were friendly to Big Tech, and since Clinton, to money generally. Under Biden Ds began gently reverting towards a more egalitarian, New Deal liberalism, Republicans stayed "pro business", Trump sold tech his support, and that was enough for the industry to go Nazi. 2/

Gates is and always has been an IP maximalist, a position as conservative as they come. It's that Democrats at the time weren't challenging material conservatism, only social conservatism, that let Gates remain a Democratic and lets you describe him as liberal. 3/

Tech was willing to be liberal when liberalism was about sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll. As soon as liberalism began to demand competitive industry structures and revisit material obligations towards anything like a just and cohesive society, it went Nazi. /fin