Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie will be the first San Francisco mayor in more than a century to have no prior government experience, and he, like Donald Trump in 2016, is a political newcomer with very deep pockets, spending millions of his personal wealth. And, just as Trump has received backing from Silicon Valley tech millionairesmoguls, so has moderate Democrat Lurie. TheAltman's differenceforay isinto thatpolitics Lurieshould isbe viewed as a moderateconcerning Democratcontinuation of the growing influence of the tech industry on US politics.