Musk is a red herring here. He's the face of the operation, but the program he's implementing is just longstanding Republican policy. He may deny the use of the Project 2025 playbook, but if so, he's starting with the same assumptions and reaching the same conclusions.

If he does in fact leave, little will change. He'll be replaced by a less famous person, probably one who spends less time bragging on Twitter about it.

This may not be what Silicon Valley actually does, but it's what a large fraction of the country believes that Silicon Valley does. Trump was elected in part because voters wanted him to run the country the way they imagine trillion-dollar companies run.

So that's what we're gonna get. And I guess we'll find out if it's actually a good idea.

If there’s anything 2024 has taught us, is that “tech industry leaders“ are just a bunch of spineless followers who’d rather curl up in a ball and hope no one noticed them than have an original thought that might upset “the man”.