"The Nerd Reich": Author Gil Durán on Big Tech Fascism, Peter Thiel, JD Vance & the War on Democracy

A new book by longtime Bay Area journalist Gil Duran investigates tech fascism" and its mounting influence on U.S. politics. The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy follows the rise of Vice President JD Vance, the former venture capitalist whose outsider" campaign for Senate was bankrolled by the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, Peter Thiel. Duran traces the ideological lineage of the current Trump administration back from Vance to Thiel and the far-right-wing monarchist Curtis Yarvin, whose right-libertarian" political theory has long made the rounds among Silicon Valley elite. These guys were never libertarians," says Duran. Now that they are the government, we see their true face: They're fascists, and they're authoritarians."