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Over time, Thiel says, a growing number of tech leaders came to appreciate his "courage" in backing the president-elect. Companies began actively shifting their workforce away from the ideological monoculture of the San Francisco Bay Area, seeking more "productive" and less "woke" talent elsewhere.
"There was a way the intergenerational compact has broken down, the younger generation is finding it much harder to get their footing," Thiel explains. The Democratic party, in his view, had become beholden to a narrow, identity-focused agenda disconnected from the lived realities of working-class voters.