How conservative anger at Big Tech pushed the GOP into Bernie Sanders’ corner By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times Published: May 9, 2021, 2:45pm Share: Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., chair of the Senate Budget Committee, pauses for reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 29, 2021, the day after President Joe Biden addressed Congress on his first 100 days in office. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) WASHINGTON – During most of Donald Trump’s time in the White House, Silicon Valley could regard the legal threats Republicans hurled its way as a sideshow: unfocused, unserious, untenable. But a campaign launched in a cauldron of conservative grievance — over censorship allegations, complaints of “woke” corporate values and the power wielded by a few Bay Area billionaires — has, in former President Trump’s absence, morphed into something far more worrisome to big business.