For too many years big tech giants in Silicon Valley and conservatives have treated each other like enemy combatants.  We’ve made the case at UP for years to both sides that this hostility never made much sense.  After all, it was laissez-faire free market policies that allowed the U.S. to globally dominate the internet age and spawn at least five multi-trillion dollar American companies – the mightiest on the planet.

So we were thrilled to read this headline from the Wall Street Journal yesterday:

The lead tells it all: “The Trump administration is using its global trade wars to advance the interests of the U.S. technology industry, seeking to prevent foreign countries from targeting American internet firms.”

It was the Biden Justice Department that tried to break up big tech and slow their investment in AI.

Hopefully, the tech companies have figured out who their real friends are. Several of the Magnificent Seven tech companies saw their stocks hit all-time highs yesterday.