[Leonard D Neubache]

Trump has stomped over the territorial and trade interests of giants like China with plenty of gusto yet has willingly projected a total sense of impotence in the face of what is essentially a no-vote-loss battle with Silicon Valley. He could get them audited to hell. He could arrest hundreds of high-tier managers for technical violations of privacy laws. He could level federal hatespeech charges at their board of directors for racist content they refuse to take down until their stocks dropped like a rock and they begged for public square protections in exchange for ceasing censorship. Hell, he could even tweet once in a while about their abuse of foreign workers including children making phones in cancerous shitholes that need suicide nets to keep the drones from jumping out the windows.

And none of this would lose him a vote. The MAGA voter base that put him in power hate Silicon Valley.

Team wait-and-see have been routed. Facebook censorship tipped the election. There is no 100D chess here.

Trump never needed to break up the SV giants (you'd just end up with twice as many fuckhead organisations). He could have done something to put them on the back foot but it seems that this giant striding through the world is incapable of doing anything to thwart the Zuckerbergian megachads except to occasionally tweet "It's not fair!!!"

That's reasonable grounds for bullshit alarms to start pinging.