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Facebook engineer guides San Antonio Trump team to victory, realizes the gravity of what he has done, goes soul searching in Peru and undoubtedly does Ayahuasca, then leaves Facebook and resolves to defeat his old partners.

Someone needs to contact this guy for the movie rights. It’s the perfect modern redemption arc, and peak Silicon Valley.

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It's a complete cliché even Mike Judge would pass if the script wasn't something in the line of Idiocracy.

James Barnes is a salesperson, not an engineer.

Arguably a social engineer.

No, just a salesperson. He's a very good salesperson, mind you, and like many salespeople, he ends up as the front-facing person in these kinds of endeavours.

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