From Elon Musk to David Sacks to far-right VC bloggers, J.D. Vance got the influence of the entire tech world. Now he might be headed to the White House.
In actuality, it was the Big Tech and venture capital ambassadors who were the happiest of all. Trump had been the target of a heated effort from Silicon Valley types of all strata to get Vance to the VP slot. Or, as, “a secret lobbying campaign continued into yesterday morning, with Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson and tech investor David Sacks all calling Trump to try to lock in Vance.
It was clear that Vance’s return home was less about uplifting the “hillbillies” he had whitesplained to the liberal bubble with his memoir and more about seeking higher power. He teased a run for officechaired by Federalist Society maven Leonard Leo. When that run for office flamed out, he dug deeper into the VC realm, starting astarted by Thiel to get a race going for the seat held by retiring Sen. Rob Portman.
Popular far-right Senate candidate J.D. Vance retweeting a groyper. David Carlson is a tradcath who runs a small Youtube channel, & has a history of antisemitism.
social justice protests, COVID lockdowns, and the antitrust scrutiny and legal probes that came under the Biden administration. A sense of grievance afflicted onetime Biden voters like Musk and Palihapitiya—and always-radical folks, including Sacks (who arranged his pro-Trump Silicon Valley events withwere eager to direct their money to any sort of political influence they could muster because they knew they wouldn’t get anywhere with Biden.Electric Cars Were Supposed to Take Over the World.
: that “Vance is influenceable” and that “plenty of our guys can be put into positions of power because he’s there.” Peter Thiel understood that a long time ago. Members of the oligarch class that boosted Vance’s fellowin a potential future Trump administration—came to understand that. And a horrifyingly possible Vice President J.D. Vance is the
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