Thiel is probably the most obvious example, being explicitly anti-democracy and pro-authoritarian. Musk is also known for endorsing fringe far-right views and activists. I wouldn't be surprised if there are many more such attitudes in the SV elite, but the rest of them are better at self-regulating.

I think it's both. For sure Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and others all have some extremely out there beliefs, lots of power, a desire to wield it, and connections to POTUS and the vice president who both seem to be about gaining and wielding as much power as possible.

I haven't read the book but I've read some stuff on a website of the same name, and the way it ties it all together felt very tinfoil hat to me. I think these guys all mutually tolerate each other's insanity in their common lust for ever more power and insatiable egos.

Look at who was and is consulting the President or paying for his vanity projects, judge for yourself.

LMGTFO:

...singling out ennemies of the Reich... https://www.google.com/search?q=thiel+antichrist

...democracy aiming to be a fair competition of ideas... https://www.google.com/search?q=thiel+competition+is+for+los...

Some starting points for you: Curtis Yarvin, Peter Theil, Elon Musk, Balaji Srinivasan, TESCREAL, The Californian Ideology.

It's just the classic of people with a whole lot of money getting what they want from the government, only boosted by the fact that for the previous decade and a half the left has legitimized political action from corporations since it benefited them, as platforms were largely left-leaning. Now the boot is finally on the other foot and panic ensues.

Can't say I like it, but it has been my position from the very start that this would happen, and as such I'm fresh out of sympathy.

Don't like it? Build your own Silicon Valley.

This is real. Gil Duran is extremely well respected among those of us who are against the fascist takeover of Silicon Valley, which has been well-documented for quite some time.