[__jal]

Joining the chorus to say, why on earth not? And what in the announcement made you think that there was some litmus test?

This might earn me down votes, but it is an honest question. I understand that a segment of the population, accustomed to their status as "default human", feel like they're losing that, and I can empathize. (In fact, I am a member of that cohort wrt most checklist identity-traits people think of.) I also understand that folks with minority viewpoints are used to never seeing their preferred policy implemented. (Again, this describes me; many of my policy preferences are anathema to the majority, just along different dimensions than Trump voters I know.) And I understand this election was a lot more acrimonious than, I think, any in living memory.

That said, the question is about the (to me) bizarre defensiveness of Trump voters. Your team won, and has a freer hand than most presidents ever get. Why are you pretending you're oppressed?

[splat]

I'm not in any way a Trump supporter or on the right more generally, but I can see why people on the right might be skeptical. The tech community did, after all, run Brendan Eich out on a rail when they discovered that he donated $1000 in favor of Prop. 8. I think they know that, while they may be in the majority nation-wide, in the tech community they are a small, reviled minority. And if they work for political campaigns they support, there will be social, and potentially business, repercussions.

It seems a little to me like get-out-the-vote campaigns. They're dressed up as some totally non-partisan, civic-duty enterprise. But if you're targeting your efforts towards demographics that you know are generally going to vote a certain way, can you really claim with a straight face that you're not helping a particular political party? Here you know a priori that you'll be encouraging people to get involved in politics with a certain bent. I'll point out that none of this is bad, per se, but I think it's why you can expect conservatives to react defensively.

[a_j_c]

> "That said, the question is about the (to me) bizarre defensiveness of Trump voters. Your team won, and has a freer hand than most presidents ever get. Why are you pretending you're oppressed?"

Is this addressed to me?