These MAGA Republicans have angrily condemned big tech while making huge profits from it: report

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Before the MAGA movement, Republicans were — apart from Patrick Buchanan — known for being staunch defenders of Corporate America. Billionaire corporate CEOS and Wall Street tycoons, the late radio host Rush Limbaugh often told listeners during the 1990s and 2000s, were America’s job creators and “achievers.” And raising their taxes, Limbaugh argued, was “punishing achievement.”

But the Republican Party took a pseudo-populist turn when Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election and pushed his Buchanan-influenced MAGA movement to the forefront of the Republican Party. Now, in 2022, one of the ways in which Republican candidates try to show voters how MAGA they are is by railing against big tech.

Journalist David Corn, in an article published by Mother Jones on October 19, cites two Republican U.S. Senate candidates — J.D. Vance in Ohio and Blake Masters in Arizona — as examples of MAGA Republicans who have been railing against big tech relentlessly. But both of them, Corn stresses, are hypocrites, as they have profited a great from big tech and Silicon Valley.

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“It’s become de rigueur for Republicans — especially Republican candidates — to blast away at big tech, assailing it for an assortment of ills, such as privacy violations and a presumed, and often unproven, bias against conservatives,” Corn explains. “Two GOP Senate candidates, in particular, J.D. Vance in Ohio and Blake Masters in Arizona, have pounded technology companies. Yet both have had connections to tech firms that have spurred privacy concerns, and their Senate bids have each been funded by big tech billionaire Peter Thiel, who has founded and financed ventures that prompt similar worries.”

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