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“It’s not that complicated. I know there are a lot of folks who say, what’s going on with some of these Silicon Valley folks [Peter Thiel] veering into Trump world with JD Vance and backing Trump.
“What are they thinking? Silicon Valley, they’re supposed to care about climate. They’re supposed to be, you know, be pro-science and rational and libertarian. So normally libertarians don’t like authoritarians. What’s up with that?
“I think it’s actually we’ve made it way too complicated. It’s super simple. These are very rich men who have decided to back the Republican Party that tends to do good things for very rich men.
“That’s kind of what you’re getting with JD. When I got to Harvard, I found a lot of people like him who would say whatever they needed to to get ahead.
“And five years ago, that seemed like being the anti-Trump Republican. So that’s what he was talking about. How he [Trump] was unfit, how he was cynical, called him an opioid, which is kind of a weird thing to say about a person.
“I mean, for somebody who’s identity is that they’re connected to Appalachia, which has an opioid crisis, that really is the darkest thing you could possibly say about Donald Trump, at least in public.
“But behind the scenes, apparently, is actually calling him Hitler, right? Seriously, five years later, the way he gets ahead is that he’s the greatest guy since sliced bread.
“I actually watched this exact same process with somebody else I got to know in my days in the Midwest, which was, my former governor, Mike Pence, who I watched start out as an evangelical Christian who cared about rectitude and family values and then get on board with a guy who was mixed up with a porn star, make excuses for him so that he could have power.
“He got four glorious years, I guess, as Vice president of the United States. And it ended on the west front of the Capitol with Trump supporters proposing that he be hanged for using the one shred of integrity he still had to stand up to an attempt to overthrow the government.
“So I guess, maybe not as a politician, but as a human being, what I’ll say is that I hope things work out a little bit better for JD Vance than it did for him.” – Pete Buttigieg, last night on Bill Maher’s show.