Andreessen and the tech reactionaries were not betrayed by “American-hating communists” backed by the “Democratic machine;” they simply could not be content to be merely rich. Out of spite towards those who disrespected them and contempt for the liberal democratic governments that attempted to hold them to the obligations of citizenship and the law, Andreesen and his peers have betrayed the very arrangement that made them wealthy and influential.
Makes me wonder if all these techbros going fascist and racist is, at its core, the long term effects of being an insecure nerd who wasn’t invited to the “coolest” parties.
We know Trump was rejected by elite and celebrity society. That probably fueled his bitter insecurities. Likewise, the Andreessens, Musks, Altmans and Zuckerbergs probably felt like social pariahs and, now that they have immense wealth, feel empowered to exact revenge.
I hear Trump was invited to some interesting elite parties in the Caribbean.