Donald Trump wants to rebuild the economy of the 1950s–lots of strong, burly men working in mining and manufacturing jobs that either have disappeared, or are going to in the near future. It is hardly an agenda that would appeal to tech bros. And yet, some of them are his vocal supporters. Why?
Two reasons. First, they see Trump as a chaos agent who will disrupt an unacceptable status quo dominated by unimaginative bureaucrats who keep their genius under strict control. The highly questionable assumption in this scenario is that power will fall into their hands, not the hands of the reactionaries (ask the industrialists who backed Hitler how well that worked out for them). Second, both they and Trump believe that successful entrepreneurs are economic supermen who deserve to be set free and need more respect from the public. In that sense, they are natural allies.