Thiel compared California liberalism to Saudi Arabian Wahabbism — but it was sort of a compliment

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    3 months ago

    You don’t think the modern conservative movement has changed at all since Reagan?

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      3 months ago

      Cut taxes (for the wealthy and corporations - while quietly raising them for everybody else through a variety of tricks), erode the separation of church and state, ban abortion, gut environmental protections, pack the supreme court, demonize liberals, blow up the national debt, destroy public education, dogwhistle racists, bust unions, overspend on the military, hate on the gays, gerrymander and suppress voters, make fun of the French … this shit has all been around since before Reagan. If it’s changed, it’s only been to become more openly loathsome.