“He’s talking about Silicon Valley ( since WHEN ARE THOSE TYPES CONSERVATIVES? )”
Peter Thiel. Joe Rogan. Elon Musk. Maybe you just haven’t kept up with the microdosing of psychedelics by rightwing tech bros. It’s not new.
https://www.vox.com/2024/2/14/24067911/a-brief-history-of-silicon-valleys-fascination-with-drugs
“And Bobby Kennedy Jr. is something of a crackpot LEFTY, even though he is aboard the Trump Train.”
I think that’s Sailer’s point. Cultural left weirdness is now finding fans among people who think they are on the right.
What amuses me is Chesteron did write about this same cultural goofiness afflicting England over a hundred years ago. And a lot of it was big in California in the 1960s. And now the same stuff is finding fans on what passes for 2025 Right, especially among the MAHA crowd.
Astronomy, numerology, fad food cults, "dope" ( opium, morphine, and alcoholic beverages ) tarot cards, etc. for 100s of years, on and off, though mostly in Europe, for some of that, and not only amongst lefties.
The New England Fox sisters were at it, with "spiritualism" quite a few years PRIOR to the Civil War here!
Cagliostro was at it, in Europe, in the mid 18th century and had many an Aristo and Royal followers!
A LOT of that all was BIG all over America in the 1960s; NOT just in California! And it was also around in the 1940s and '50s, but more hidden from view.
OTOH...these things are NOT all that "BIG" in the general public, with most GenZers now.