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Is he confused about what Fox is or is he trying to copy it?

Rupert Murdoch sold the majority of Fox. While he's conservative, his sons appear to be less so. Thiel might be trying to hedge against a world where Fox doesn't exist.

This is a great point, and a real possibility. With Murdoch's sons in charge, look for Fox to really move away from the right. Their willingness to cut O'Reilly so quickly despite his massive audience was indicative of this new approach I think.

I do wonder what "there is room to flank Fox News from the right" is supposed to mean. What does that network look like?

Probably alot like http://www.oann.com/

At least in the US, libertarians typically consider themselves "right" of the Republican party. It's confusing, because right/left in politics exists on multiple dimensions. One of those is religion/social morality, and on that dimension libertarians are far to the left of mainstream Republicans. On the economics/gov't size dimension, however, they are solidly to the right.

The Republican party is more diverse than most commentators appreciate. Trump didn't even have a majority of the vote in the Republican primary. Consider that the median Republican voter did not consider Trump to be their first choice. And that basically all the candidates except for Kasich ran to the right of Trump.

Also, libertarians are generally to the right of the Democratic party on religious liberty issues. Hardcore libertarians have no problems with people having kooky or unhealthy religious practices, for that matter.

Isn’t Breitbart flanking fox from the right?

Edit: apparently he’s looking to the financier of Breitbart for funding. So Breitbart 2.0?

It looks like Alex Jones, Glenn Beck, Tomi Lahren, RT, etc.

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