Opinion | Why Do People Like Elon Musk Love Donald Trump? It’s Not Just About Money. - The New York Times

Chris Hughes is the chair of the Economic Security Project and the author of the forthcoming book “Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy.” He is a co-founder of Facebook. On a Friday morning in May, a day after Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts in a scheme to influence the 2016 election by falsifying business records, I met a tech leader for breakfast in the Flatiron district of Manhattan. A lifelong Democrat, he had recently reinvented himself as an ardent Trump supporter. Unmoved by the conviction, he was on his way to a fund-raiser for the former president about a week later (starting ticket price: $50,000). I co-founded Facebook in college 20 years ago, but I left California and start-up culture behind long ago for public policy and economics. As we sat over scrambled eggs, chicken sausage and whole-wheat toast, I was struck by how many of the wealthiest and most powerful figures in Silicon Valley — including some I knew — were now loudly

Chris Hughes is the chair of the Economic Security Project and the author of the forthcoming book “Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy.” He is a co-founder of Facebook. On a Friday morning in May, a day after Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts in a scheme to influence the 2016 election by falsifying business records, I met a tech leader for breakfast in the Flatiron district of Manhattan. A lifelong Democrat, he had recently reinvented himself as an ardent Trump supporter. Unmoved by the conviction, he was on his way to a fund-raiser for the former p