The model is simple they find people like this, usually people who have not said the quiet part out loud yet, and fund them. They put them in think tanks and have them churn out white papers that get boiled down and the donor class of the GOP then takes these talking points and arm their politicians with them.

It is no coincidence that two of the billionaires you mentioned he rubs elbows with have strong South African ties. (Musk and Thiel).

In law and politics I have been able to fair well is because I shatter the lie of white intellectual superiority. I get white folk to either admit they are less intelligent than a black person, which means they are defective and not worthy of their whiteness or that is all a myth.

That is a type of intellectual violence that stays with someone.

This man can be isolated, but others who did not make the same mistakes he made in his youth will be harder to stop.

Think tanks need to be funded and deployed to stop this element of fascism.