It&#x27;s hard being on the wrong side of prevailing sentiments, and when all this pans out I think people will be a little shocked at how the tech sector&#x27;s enormous financial advantages will have carried less weight than anyone expected.<p>You can&#x27;t win politics with money alone. You need a narrative that appeals to peoples&#x27; values. Privacy is not a winner in this regard, nor is unrestricted markets (note the leading republican candidate today is pushing an anti-free-trade message). People aren&#x27;t going to reflexively favor technological progress for its own sake when they see it undermining things they care about (jobs, security, etc).