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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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From: S. maltophilia10/20/2025 3:38:12 PM
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The Tech Right Gets Its Own Phyllis Schlafly

.....Many of the ideas that Ms. Boyle, 39, has promoted have nothing ostensibly to do with her investing portfolio. In a keynote speech at the American Enterprise Institute last winter, Ms. Boyle told the audience: “We are living in an age of memetic power and memetic war. Meme it and we will be it.” As one of X’s most influential posters, she has declared that we are entering “an era of the martyr” after the assassination of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk and endorsed the Trump administration’s military strikes on drug cartels. (“Destroy them all.”)

“I think there should be a chief marketing officer of America,” Ms. Boyle told a podcaster in March. “That would be a dream job.”

These remarks have also helped shape the conservative conversation outside the tech industry. Bari Weiss, the new editor....

... In February, the “American Dynamism” fund announced that it was hiring Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran best known for restraining a New York City busker named Jordan Neely in a chokehold until he died, as a deal partner.

When asked about Mr. Penny’s lack of business experience, Ms. Boyle simply told me: “He’s wonderful. He’s a gentleman.” She...

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