{"id":5855,"date":"2022-05-30T06:37:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T04:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/30\/don-of-a-new-era-the-rise-of-peter-thiel-as-a-us-rightwing-power-player\/"},"modified":"2022-05-30T06:37:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T04:37:05","slug":"don-of-a-new-era-the-rise-of-peter-thiel-as-a-us-rightwing-power-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/30\/don-of-a-new-era-the-rise-of-peter-thiel-as-a-us-rightwing-power-player\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Don\u2019 of a new era: the rise of Peter Thiel as a US rightwing power player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Paypal Mafia\u2019s lynchpin is putting his vast tech fortune to work for candidates aligned to Trump\u2019s agenda in the midterms<\/p>\n<p>As the Republican party primaries play out across the US, the most sought after endorsement is still that of former president Donald Trump. But when it comes to the most vital part of any American campaign \u2013 money \u2013 another figure is emerging on the right of US politics who is becoming equally significant.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Thiel, the PayPal founder and former CEO referred to as the \u201cdon\u201d of the original <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2007\/11\/13\/paypal-mafia\/\">PayPal Mafia<\/a>, a group that included Elon Musk, is establishing himself as a serious power player in American rightwing politics by wielding the power of his vast fortune.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/may\/30\/peter-thiel-republican-midterms-trump-paypal-mafia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/98fcdbc68fce8f7b04124d74987dc6fe4b2ab449\/0_286_4294_2577\/master\/4294.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3f391ce7f4f3aca50f65bfe6928d10a1\" title=\"\u2018Don\u2019 of a new era: the rise of Peter Thiel as a US rightwing power player\" \/>The Paypal Mafia\u2019s lynchpin is putting his vast tech fortune to work for candidates aligned to Trump\u2019s agenda in the midterms<br \/>\nAs the Republican party primaries play out across the US, the most sought after endorsement is still that of former president Donald Trump. But when it comes to the most vital part of any American campaign \u2013 money \u2013 another figure is emerging on the right of US politics who is becoming equally significant.<br \/>\nPeter Thiel, the PayPal founder and former CEO referred to as the \u201cdon\u201d of the original PayPal Mafia, a group that included Elon Musk, is establishing himself as a serious power player in American rightwing politics by wielding the power of his vast fortune. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paypal Mafia\u2019s lynchpin is putting his vast tech fortune to work for candidates aligned to Trump\u2019s agenda in the midterms As the Republican party primaries play out across the US, the most sought after endorsement is still that of former president Donald Trump. But when it comes to the most vital part of any &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/30\/don-of-a-new-era-the-rise-of-peter-thiel-as-a-us-rightwing-power-player\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Don\u2019 of a new era: the rise of Peter Thiel as a US rightwing power player<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}