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The Unlikely Alliance Between Culture War Catholics and Tech Bro Billionaires
These men have put their immense wealth behind the populist nationalism of Donald Trump, and culture-war Catholicism in the United States has gone alone for the ride.
I have been thinking of the gulf between these two perspectives on the source of civilization — the first prioritizing the power of technology, the second the powerlessness of Christ — as tech bro billionaires have put their immense wealth behind the populist nationalism of Donald Trump, and culture-war Catholicism in the United States has gone along for the ride. But in the last few years, figures including the world's richest man, Elon Musk; PayPal founder Peter Thiel; Andreessen and more have supported the turn to a post-truth Trumpian politics that promises the end of left-wing cancel culture; less regulation of technology; and democracy on the brink. The same dark energies of the libido dominandi popped out when the Heritage Foundation's Catholic president, Kevin Roberts, said in July 2024 of changes he hoped a second Trump administration would make: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."
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