![]() ![]() He was the ninth largest political donor of the election cycle, according to Open Secrets. His donations to J.D. The 2022 midterms saw Thiel making the biggest political bets of his life thus far. The person who donated to Blake Masters thinks the party needs to stop talking about culture war? ![]() ![]() But this is still a bit hard to understand. We have anonymous sources saying a donor-always fickle-won’t invest in candidates in 2024. The Reuters article should be taken with a heavy grain of salt. More half-heartedly, he claimed Trump won the 2020 election. called abortion “demonic.” He tweeted that “not everything has to be gay” after a bisexual Superman was announced. As my colleague Noah Lanard reported, Masters was explicit about the “cultural flashpoints”: Chief among them was Blake Masters, who made a failed attempt at Senate in Arizona. In 2022, Thiel’s handpicked candidates-who also happened to be his former employees-famously combined those “cultural flashpoints” with a protectionist economic message to run on a distinct strain of right-wing populism. This morning, Reuters reported that Peter Thiel plans to take a step back from politics in 2024 and will not “fund candidates.” The article cited several of the Silicon Valley billionaire’s close associates anonymously saying that in late 2022 Thiel came to believe that “Republicans are making a mistake in focusing on cultural flashpoints.” Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. ![]()
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