In the post-election blame game, progressives have been a favorite target of the center who want to pin the Democratic debacle on left-wing overreach. Now one of the stories pundits like Matt Yglesias and Noah Smith are telling is that the mean left-wingers alienated their old friends in Silicon Valley with their stream of criticisms directed at our tech overlords and forced them to go right-wing.

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