What's the Precursor to the Altright?

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The altright is some kind of weird amalgamation of e who are conservative and upset with society in some way, whether they're insals or notes. It seems like the precursor to the altright was the tea party. And then you had on this other side, white supremicists who kind of joined the Altright. I think i don't think peter's white nationlis, but i think he knos some of them as as useful.

First, Jason covers Coinbase's announcement of their new NFT platform (2:06). Then, Bloomberg's Max Chafkin joins to discuss his book, "The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power" (19:57). It's a wide-ranging discussion about Peter's life, business, and politics as well as a debate over the way Max framed him in the book.