By Douglas Andrews

If you haven't worked in Big Tech, you need not apply for a job in the Biden administration.

Incestuous. It’s an ugly adjective, but it’s the only one that accurately describes the interrelationship between three powerful and highly influential leftist families: Obama, Biden, and Big Tech.

As Katherine Doyle of the Washington Examiner reports, “The Obama-Biden administration from 2009-2017 was criticized for its close ties to Big Tech, and veterans of that White House, as well as of technology firms, are finding their way back into Joe Biden’s government. This at a moment when major tech firms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google are under fire for what critics call a politically biased crackdown on conservative speech.”

Doyle calls these people “reverse revolvers” — which is to say they’ve moved from the Obama administration to the private sector and back to the Biden administration. Their numbers are dizzying. Suffice it to say that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will have plenty of speech suppressors whispering sweet nothings into their ears.

It’s great work if you can get it: Join an incoming administration’s transition team, help it vet thousands of personnel for key staff positions (including those at the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission, and the DOJ’s antitrust division), and then, when you’ve got all your people in place, jump aboard yourself. What could be more … incestuous? I mean, it’s not as if these Big Tech transplants will advocate on behalf of their former employers. And it’s not as if they’ll promote policies that make Big Tech even bigger and more powerful, regardless of whether those policies are beneficial to fundamental American institutions such as competition, free-market capitalism, and the marketplace of ideas.