Why is the American right suddenly so interested in psychedelic drugs?

It's foolish to imagine positive transformation achieved with the help of Rebekah Mercer, Steve Bannon or Greg Abbott. After all, these are the same people who vociferously oppose universal healthcare and deny climate change. With their support, we can expect psychedelic medicine for the elite, as a tool of state power or an engine of conspiracy theories, rather than a liberationist psychedelic movement. Until we have universal, single-payer healthcare, the benefits of psychedelic therapy will be out of reach for most Americans…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/18/psychedelic-drugs-us-republican-thiel-mercer-foundation

Wealthy GOP Donors Form Secret Coalitions to Wield More Influence - The New York Times

…The coalition, called the Rockbridge Network, includes some of Mr. Trump's biggest donors, such as Peter Thiel and Rebekah Mercer, and has laid out an ambitious goal — to reshape the American right by spending more than $30 million on conservative media, legal, policy and voter registration projects, among other initiatives...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/politics/republican-donors-rockbridge-network-trump.html

Parler CEO Is Fired After 'Constant Resistance' Inside The Conservative-Friendly Site : NPR

Rebekah Mercer, who controls Parler's board and was an early investor in the company, is a major donor to conservative causes, including Trump's 2016 campaign.

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/03/963832594/parler-ceo-is-fired-after-constant-resistance-inside-the-conservative-friendly-s

How the Mercers Funded Election Unrest

The billionaire Republican megadonors have funded numerous organizations now peddling baseless claims about the election...

https://theintercept.com/2021/01/14/capitol-riot-mercers-election-unrest/

BUSTED: Shadowy right-wing billionaires are the ones pushing pro-Trump anti-lockdown protests - Raw Story

The seemingly spontaneous protests against statewide stay-at-home orders have been promoted and financed by a right-wing network.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/shadowy-right-wing-billionaires-are-pushing-pro-trump-anti-lockdown-protests/

GOP megadonor Robert Mercer made his first six-figure donation to Trump’s reelection, new filing shows - The Washington Post

The hedge fund magnate was one of President Trump's most influential financiers in the 2016 campaign.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-megadonor-robert-mercer-made-his-first-six-figure-donation-to-trumps-reelection-new-filing-shows/2020/04/16/b4dac5cc-7f90-11ea-9040-68981f488eed_story.html

“Crickets. They’re Gone”: Why the Mercers, Trump’s Biggest 2016 Backers, Have Bailed on Him - Vanity Fair

Robert Mercer is disillusioned. "Bob views all his political spending as a bad investment," says a source close to Mercer. "This whole thing did not end up well for them," says Sam Nunberg.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/why-the-mercers-trumps-biggest-2016-backers-have-bailed-on-him

The Secrets of Leonard Leo, the Man Behind Trump’s Supreme Court Pick

A Catholic fundamentalist who controls a network of right-wing groups funded by dark money has put three justices on the court. He’s about to get a fourth.....

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-secrets-of-leonard-leo-the-man-behind-trumps-supreme-court-pick

Donald Trump’s biggest donors sponsored the most racist ads in the campaign - Salon

One of President Donald Trump's main financial backers has been linked to bigoted ads that played on voters' prejudices against Muslims during the 2016 presidential election. ....
https://www.salon.com/2018/04/06/donald-trumps-biggest-donors-sponsored-the-most-racist-ads-in-the-campaign/

Cloak and Data: The Real Story Behind Cambridge Analytica’s Rise and Fall – Mother Jones

The secretive data firm said it could move the minds of American voters. That wasn’t its real victory.....
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/cloak-and-data-cambridge-analytica-robert-mercer/

Cambridge Analytica Says It Won The Election For Trump. Here’s What It's Actually Talking About. - BuzzFeed News

Cambridge Analytica provided "data acquisition" and other services to the Make America Number One PAC. Its targeted Facebook ads generated millions of views by aggressively attacking Hillary Clinton during the fall of 2016. ....
https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/cambridge-analytica-says-they-won-the-election-for-trump ...

Rebekah Mercer Standing By Cambridge Analytica After Blackmail Scandal - The Daily Beast

Billionaire heiress Rebekah Mercer is standing by embattled data firm Cambridge Analytica––at least for now. A person close to Mercer, who sits on the firm's board, told The Daily Beast she has no immediate plans to leave her post there, despite a bombshell report alleging the company used Ukrainian sex workers to try to get compromising material about its clients' political opponents. .....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rebekah-mercer-stands-by-cambridge-analytica

Cambridge Analytica: Whistleblower reveals data grab of 50 million Facebook profiles

The British data firm described as “pivotal” in Donald Trump’s presidential victory was behind a ‘data grab’ of more than 50 million Facebook profiles, a whistleblower has revealed to Channel 4 News.

In an exclusive television interview, Chris Wylie, former Research Director at Cambridge Analytica tells all.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/zb6-xz-geH4

Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach | News | The Guardian

Whistleblower describes how firm linked to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon compiled user data to target American voters...

Christopher Wylie, who worked for data firm Cambridge Analytica, reveals how personal information was taken without authorisation in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters in order to target them with personalised political advertisements. At the time the company was owned by the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, and headed at the time by Donald Trump’s key adviser, Steve Bannon. Its CEO is Alexander Nix How Cambridge Analytica turned Facebook ‘likes’ into a lucrative political tool...
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election
Interview:
https://youtu.be/FXdYSQ6nu-M

Trump's biggest investors are making a new purchase—dozens of fake science groups

The Huffington Post reports that billionaires Robert and Rebekah Mercer are making a massive commitment to American ignorance by upping contributions to climate change denial.....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/26/1736165/-Trump-s-biggest-investors-are-making-a-new-purchase-dozens-of-fake-science-groups

American Democracy Has Been Sold to the Highest Bidder

Aristotle measured the quality of democracy by the extent to which politics constrains the economically powerful, allowing the preferences of the landless to be reflected in public policy. According to a new analysis, American democracy gets a failing grade on Aristotle’s test, while the countries of northern Europe are star pupils....
http://www.newsweek.com/american-democracy-has-been-sold-highest-bidder-803621

Steve Bannon and the Mercer family helped assemble research on Trump's mob connections

Just a few months before Steve Bannon took over running Donald Trump’s campaign, he was part of an effort to provide other Republican candidates with the fuel they needed to take Trump down.....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/8/1730870/-Steve-Bannon-and-the-Mercer-family-helped-assemble-research-on-Trump-s-mob-connections

Trump Spoke to Rebekah Mercer on the Phone. Then She Knifed Steve Bannon. -- The Daily Beast

Republican mega-donor Rebekah Mercer publicly rebuked Steve Bannon on Thursday in a rare, and brutal, public statement. But before she did, Mercer spoke to President Donald Trump. During conversation, which took place Thursday afternoon and was relayed to The Daily Beast by a senior White House official, Mercer and Trump addressed Bannon's scorched-earth comments that appear in Michael Wolff's new book on the Trump White House....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-spoke-to-rebekah-mercer-on-the-phone-then-she-knifed-steve-bannon

Steve Bannon’s Populist Media Empire Is Funded with Offshore Cash -- Vanity Fair

Including his Government Accountability Institute, which lists exposing the "misuse of taxpayer monies" as part of its mission. ....
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/steve-bannon-paradise-papers-offshore-cash

Offshore cash helped fund Steve Bannon's attacks on Hillary Clinton | News | The Guardian

Robert Mercer, whose spending assisted Donald Trump’s election win, used tax haven of Bermuda to avoid US taxes....
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/07/steve-bannon-bermuda-robert-mercer