On the evening of December seventh San Francisco’s Palace of Effective Arts, with its lakeside colonnade echoing a Roman wreck, become Mar-a-Lago, as Silicon Valley’s newly emboldened right-wingers gathered for a Christmas bash organised by the All-In podcast. The festive good cheer didn’t prolong to everybody; The Economist was made to really feel most unwelcome. However not earlier than being aware about a riotous celebration of how a clique of billionaires—the so-called PayPal Mafia—helped clinch Donald Trump’s election victory and has taken Washington by storm.
