The real reason Republicans should be concerned Google skews liberal

Instead of crying about bias, maybe Republicans should ask themselves why all these smart, optimistic, hard-working young people at American corporations find so little that's appealing about today's GOP

Sundar Pichai.

Republicans took advantage of Google CEO Sundar Pichai's appearance Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee to again kvetch about the company's alleged bias against conservatives. This was not unexpected. Such concerns are now a staple grievance on the right. Recall President Trump's tweets last summer accusing Google of suppressing right-wing news outlets in its search results. The White House even went so far as to discuss the need to regulate Google to prevent the alleged manipulation.

Now nobody in Silicon Valley denies techies lean overwhelmingly to the left. Trump received only a fifth of the 2016 presidential vote in that tech metropolis. And Trumpy entrepreneur Peter Thiel supposedly fled to Los Angeles to escape the oppressive progressive monoculture.

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James Pethokoukis

James Pethokoukis is the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he runs the AEIdeas blog. He has also written for The New York Times, National Review, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and other places.