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Meet the “Thielbillies” Reshaping the Republican Party

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On four successive Monday evenings this fall, hundreds of people filed through metal detectors and past armed guards into the Grand Lodge of Tennessee, a Masonic temple in Nashville, for a very special closed-door event. Culturally, it was a world away from the cowboy-boot-clad bachelorette parties and honky-tonks of Broadway, the city’s nearby tourist drag. The “largely male and suit-wearing,” according to an account by Pirate Wires—had come to hear billionaire techno-optimist Peter Thiel lectu

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