Regardless, there is no denying the remarkable ascendance of Silicon Valley and its tech leaders, in a single generation, from a collection of indifferent and often politically naive entrepreneurs into king-making, proximate-to-power lords of the political universe. — AP
When the high and mighty of Silicon Valley assumed their privileged perch at the swearing-in of President Trump, it was an ostentatious show of wealth and power unlike any before.
"You could go back to the Gilded Age and you could have a similar concentration of capital and power. You know, Rockefeller and Carnegie," said historian Margaret O'Mara, citing two of the richest men who ever bestrode the earth. "But they weren't on the dais of the inauguration."
