Meet the "Thielbillies" reshaping the Republican Party
Mother Jones profiles the "Thielbillies," a male-dominated crew of tech workers, financiers, and edgelords converging on Nashville — where Peter Thiel lectured on the Antichrist for some six hours in a Masonic temple — who believe America is a people rooted in particular places, building outlets like The Pamphleteer and Josh Abbotoy's Highland Rim charter communities around that creed. With Texas flipping blue in the midterms while Tennessee held, Mother Jones forecasts the scene will help define the reshaped Republican Party, and Thiel exhorted locals to "Get over your inferiority complex and fight."
