In 2016, JD Vance compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and now he is the former president’s running mate. Behind the scenes of the Ohio Senator’s transformation from a “Never Trump guy” to the Republican nominee's second-in-command is Peter Thiel, a billionaire venture capitalist and co-founder of Paypal.
From giving Vance a job in Silicon Valley to funding his Ohio Senate campaign — and introducing him to a network of tech billionaires who could give him more money — Thiel helped propel Vance into the MAGA-verse and onto the ballot, simultaneously bringing the agenda of the New Right into mainstream politics. The New Right is a post-Trump movement of young and elite conservatives that essentially believe federal institutions and current democratic systems have failed the United States and must be dismantled.
