Why America’s broligarchs support Donald Trump

Eight years ago, the PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel was an outlier in liberal Silicon Valley for publicly supporting Donald Trump. But now a number of prominent male tech plutocrats who previously opposed the former president have done an about-face: these broligarchs are publicly endorsing and donating to the Republican candidate – and revealing a lot about their own priorities.

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Tesla chief executive Elon Musk, who according to his biographer once waited in line for six hours to shake Barack Obama’s hand, was planning to donate $US45 million ($69 million) a month to a super PAC supporting Trump’s campaign.

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