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Even on a long enough timeline, there is no world in which the techno-optimist utopia comes to be in the United States under protectionist, isolationist policies. The Trump administration has also set to work dismantling the academic, scientific, research, and immigration infrastructures that have allowed business and innovation to thrive in the US, and the soft-power structures that have made it easy for tech companies to enter and dominate markets all over the world.

Yes, they are destroying all of things that allowed the techbros to come to power. But maybe this administration is them pulling up the ladder behind them now that they have power? They don't want competition from anything new. (They've read The Innovator's Dilemma.)