One image from the first year of Trump’s second presidency still speaks louder than a thousand words: the row of tech billionaires at his inauguration. There they sat — Silicon Valley’s titans, the self-proclaimed champions of free speech, the supposed vanguard of the technological revolution — clapping like obedient schoolchildren for their new leader. For an entire year, they did little else: applauding, paying courtesy calls, and showering him with compliments.

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