 It's not really a myth, but a much more complicated story than the one that often gets repeated about Silicon Valley as a sort of nest of progressivism. The tech industry, as most people think of it today, multiplied in size during the Obama administration, during which it was given a fairly long leash. The industry cozied up to the Obama administration, lobbied, was successful in its lobbying. There was a very obvious revolving door. Obama administration officials went into tech industry.