How can reactionary politicians such as J.D. maintain good relations with both the techno-aristocracy and with the base? By constantly bashing the barons in public, while quietly opposing any meaningful effort by the government to regulate them.
Like the bankers during the Great Recession, the barons are notoriously touchy, so this tactic might not be completely successful. Most of them would probably buy into it if they understood the public jawboning as part of a dirty bargain, however. Self-interest trumps image most of the time, if not all of it, and some of the barons might even enjoy being portrayed as Bond villains. One in particular comes to mind.