Early results are in the day after Arizona's Primary Election
Trump-endorsed Blake Masters wins GOP Senate nod in Arizona - Axios
Blake Masters Is Peter Thiel’s Dream Candidate—and a Total Nightmare for Democracy
The
right-wing tech giant, who has said he believes freedom and democracy
are incompatible, has poured millions into his protégé’s Senate
campaign.
In the spring of 2012, Blake Masters, who was in his final year at Stanford Law, sat in on a computer science class taught by Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal. During a lecture titled “Founder as Victim, Founder as God,” Thiel argued a kinglike leader was essential to innovation. “A startup is basically structured as a monarchy,” he explained. “We don’t call it that, of course. That would seem weirdly outdated, and anything that’s not democracy makes people uncomfortable.”
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Afterward, Masters tweeted that the lecture was the best 90 minutes he’d ever spent in a classroom and linked to the exhaustive notes he’d been taking on Thiel’s course. For months, everyone from tech bros to New York Times
columnist David Brooks headed to Masters’ Tumblr to read them. It was
heady stuff for a CrossFit-obsessed libertarian described by a law
school classmate as being “notable for not being notable.” RELATED
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