Peter Thiel donated $15 million to JD Vance's 2022 Senate campaign, helping elect a candidate who publicly cites Curtis Yarvin's anti-democratic theories.

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Thiel gave $15 million to Protect Ohio Values for Vance's 2022 Ohio Senate race. Vance worked at Thiel's Mithril Capital before entering politics. In 2021 podcast, Vance cited Yarvin by name and stated Trump should "fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people." Thiel told The Atlantic in 2023 he called Yarvin an "interesting and powerful" historian. Vance called Thiel's Yale Law talk "the most significant moment" of his time there.

Peter Thiel donated $15 million to JD Vance's 2022 Senate campaign, helping elect a candidate who publicly cites Curtis Yarvin's anti-democratic theories.

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