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by threeseed 2843 days ago
The concern around Trump extends to close to 70% of the electorate according to recent polling. It isn’t isolated.

And given Trump’s anti-immigrant stance Google executives being immigrants themselves would have every right to voice their concern.

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Google's executives are quite obviously not illegal immigrants. Pretending they're affected by tighter border controls is disingenuous.
Trump's stance is anti illegal immigrant which should not affect any Google execs.

Re: approval ratings, its a moot point. Trump has enjoyed generally similar approval ratings to Obama (at most single digit percentage points lower) and ultimately won a free and fair election in a first world Republic.

Having the leaders of a global monopoly megacorporation display this kind of disdain for the elected leader of the country and everyone who supports him, and (by implication) similar populist leaders across Europe (and their supporters), is extremely, deeply, disconcerting.

Electorate college? Gerrymandering?

And I hope you are not seriously stating that a company cannot have political views opposed to the government? It's either a democratic election (to have a legitimate government) which implies different opinions regardless of majorites or not (so that nobody can oppose the government). You cannot have it both ways.