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> My impression is that they're what scott calls "my dinner guests."

Yes, he's pathologically friendly towards anyone to his right: part and parcel of not taking them that seriously.

> Seriously I cannot find anything in his writing that is incompatible with those movements and beliefs.

He's a centrist neoliberal, ala Matt Yglesias. In some ways the two groups are mirror images. Paraphrasing someone, though I don't remember who:

capitalism ostensibly has two functions:

- Concentrate power in the hands of individuals who successfully "move fast and break things"

- Efficiently allocate resources through impersonal market mechanisms.

These are not fully compatible. Neoliberals aren't exactly anti-oligarch, and neoreactionaries aren't exactly anti-market, but when the two tendencies clash they're on opposite sides.

Scott doesn't hate people like Thiel, which marks him as not-left, but he's clearly not interested in doing away with liberal democracy and making him CEO of America.