Over the last 15 years, a group of businessmen mostly based in Silicon Valley—startup founders and tech venture capitalists such as Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Vivek Ramaswamy, and JD Vance—traded liberal or libertarian views for increasingly extreme right-wing, conspiratorial, and faux-populist ones. Silverman concludes that there were many reasons why. Tech leaders’ business success and wealth, inflated by years of near-zero interest rates, fed an impenetrable faith