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I know a few people in tech - what you describe as "FAANG engineer" but vast majority of them never worked for FAANG specifically (though a small minority did). I would say I would be very surprised if less than 90% of them are Democrat voters. I of course can't know for sure, and I avoid talking politics at work or with work colleagues or potential colleagues, but you can see it, with some people right out of the door, with others eventually. Mostly because that's what nice, educated, open-minded, well-adjusted people in their circle do. Most of them are very smart people, IQ-wise. A lot of them are stunningly ignorant on actual policies they are voting for, and the consequences of those policies - and as far as I can see, most of them consider any negative consequences a minor bug which can be easily solved by proper regulatory policy tweaks, just as they'd fix a bug in the code. And I don't think anything short of at least full local society collapse would cause them to consider changing their vote. It's just not something that is done. I mean, they surely might vote for different Democrat candidates in Democrat primaries to select different Democrat policies, but that's as far as it'd ever go.
There's also a subgroup which calls themselves "libertarians". Some are actually libertarians and vote for LP (which is of course completely useless, politically, but points for consistency) but I'd give more than even chance that the majority still votes Democrat anyway.
Out of all tech people I know, I could name maybe a couple who I am pretty sure are pro-Trump, but most I'd say are very "orange man bad". Observing discussions in places like HN supports my assumption that it's not just my personal bubble, but it could be a wider bubble of course.
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