You need:
* A competently run business
* Competent funding
* Competent recruiting
* Competent management
Programmers will generally want to be paid. They'll need a well-run organization, and before you can even hire and pay them, you have to find and recruit them. Not just someone interested and willing to do the work, but interested and willing to forego their existing role, and to forego their existing role for one that is, frankly, not likely to be around in another 6 months, given the track record of these kinds of organizations.
I'd guess fear of ostracism in mainstream tech would filter out more people than actual politics.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/tr...
>“He’s not hurting the people he needs to be”: a Trump voter says the quiet part out loud
>A Trump voter hurt by the shutdown reveals the real reason the president attracts hardcore supporters.
>[...] “I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” Minton told Mazzei. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”
>He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.
>Think about that line for a second. Roll it over in your head. In essence, Minton is declaring that one aim of the Trump administration is to hurt people — the right people. Making America great again, in her mind, involves inflicting pain.
>This is not an accident. Trump’s political victory and continuing appeal depend on a brand of politics that marginalizes and targets groups disliked by his supporters. Trump supporters don’t so much love the Republican party as they hate Democrats, a phenomenon political scientists call “negative partisanship.” They like Trump not because he sells them on the GOP, but because they believe he’ll stick it to the Democrats harder than anyone else.