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With J.D. Vance on Trump ticket, the Nerd Reich goes national

I've spent this year writing for The New Republic about how a group of Silicon Valley billionaires has gone super WEIRD. Now their weirdness is mating up with Trump's MAGA weirdness in the 2024 election. Here's a few things to understand about these guys:

#1: They despise democracy. These Trump-loving tech zillionaires believe democracy is bad. They want to create their own corporate dictatorships called Network States. They are actively trying to build these weird little dictator cities all over the world, including in California.

#2. They want control over existing governments. In addition to building weirdo colonies, they're also trying to capture existing governments. In San Francisco, a group of these tech zillionaires is trying to win control of City Hall ...(and now, with Peter Thiel creation J.D. Vance as Trump's running mate, the USA!)

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