Silicon Valley’s Trump supporters are dicing with the death of democracy

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Silicon Valley’s Trump supporters are dicing with the death of democracy
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In 2016, some said comparisons between the rises of Trump and Hitler were misguided. But as tech’s titans donate millions, worrying new parallels emerge

, his elegant book published after Trump’s election in 2016, David Runciman made a startling point. It was that while the liberal democracy that we take for granted won’t last for ever, it will not fail in ways familiar from the past: no revolutions, no military coups, no breakdowns of social order. It willin an unexpected manner. The implication was that people making comparisons to what happened in 1930s Germany were misguided.

Trump has tried to dissociate himself from Project 2025, perhaps because he doesn’t think he will need a plan after he’s elected The last two factors are what bring the 1930s to mind. In 1932, the Nazi party was in deep financial trouble and when Hitler became Chancellor the following year he made a personal appeal to business leaders for help. The money rolled in from 17 different business groups, with the largest donations coming from. At the time, those donations must have looked like shrewd bets for the industrialists who placed them.

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