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Elon Musk, the richest man on Earth, spent $250 million to help Donald Trump win the 2024 election. Steve Bannon admitted that Musk’s involvement was the game-changer. David Sacks, another racist, South African billionaire, was just named by Trump to be the “Czar of AI and Crypto.” Peter Thiel, another racist billionaire who supports white nationalists, helped groom and elevate J.D. Vance, who is connected to tech money and venture capitalists and a heartbeat away from the Presidency.
In addition to obscene wealth, these men and their fellow travelers in the conservative movement share a core set of beliefs on what specific groups should be elevated and what hierarchies should be maintained for humanity to thrive. If you’re thinking “white,” you’re thinking right. If you need more hints, please look at Nazi eugenics and bunk race science.
At first glance, you might think it’s absurd and a far-fetched, Bond villain plot from the 1980’s. Still, what were once considered fringe, bat-shit conspiracies are mainstreamed thanks to right-wing media which help inform the sordid worldview of an incestuous conservative ecosystem from America to Europe.
Investigative journalist Dr. Nafeez Ahmed has spent 15 years researching this network of tech bros, billionaire funders, right-wing think tanks, conspiratorial nuts, politicians, and media outlets that he concludes want to destroy Western democracies from within and replace it with their authoritarian, techno-utopia based, in part, on race science and right-wing religious ideologies.
He’s just published a new book, Alt-Reich: The Network to Destroy the West from Within, and he joins me on Chai Talk to discuss the dangerous future they have planned now that their ally, Donald Trump, is back in power.
Grab a chai and give us a listen.
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