Andreessen and the tech reactionaries were not betrayed by “American-hating communists” backed by the “Democratic machine;” they simply could not be content to be merely rich. Out of spite towards those who disrespected them and contempt for the liberal democratic governments that attempted to hold them to the obligations of citizenship and the law, Andreesen and his peers have betrayed the very arrangement that made them wealthy and influential.
I completely agree, and it’s pretty clear the author is well-off enough to have little empathy with people struggling under the American system. That’s why I’m shocked he’s bothering to call out Andreesen.