This is a very good story. Yet it's amazing to see the New York Times continually miss the forest for the trees.
The NYT is ok with extremist ideology as an anecdote in a profile—but highly allergic to any deeper examination of the ideology itself.
No one gets to write an op-ed explaining any of this. That’s not allowed. But a billionaire can drop it in a quote as a passing comment.
Of course, I just wrote a book about it!
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Gil Duran
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