There is a common origin story to the far-right billionaire backers of Donald Trump: apartheid South Africa.
Both Elon Musk and Peter Thiel – the biggest tech billionaires backing Trump – grew up there, where their fathers grew rich, respectively, mining diamonds and uranium – sectors at the core of the apartheid economy.
“The centrality of South Africa for the far right and for neoliberals is quite extraordinary,” said Boston University’s Professor Quinn Slobodian in a recent interview. “For […]
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