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The Rise of the Republican Class Warrior
The Rise of the Republican Class Warrior
Blake Masters is running for Senate in Arizona. (YouTube)
How the GOP ditched trickle-down economics and embraced populism.
By Peter Savodnik
11.11.21 — U.S. Politics
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The Rise of the Republican Class Warrior

Blake Masters is a Republican Senate candidate in Arizona backed by billionaire PayPal founder Peter Thiel. Until recently, his signature issue would have been free trade or privatizing Social Security. Instead, it’s his belief that a family should be able to get by on one income.  

In his most recent ad, the 35-year-old former venture capitalist, standi…

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Peter Savodnik
Peter Savodnik is senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity Fair, as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other venues—reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.
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