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I am Jill’s complete lack of surprise.

Disclaimer: since some folks can’t separate explaining something vs agreeing with something, this is just me explaining based on observations and having read Thiels’ book Zero to One. I’m still forming an opinion on the matter.

Did anyone not see this coming in one form or another? Thiel openly supported Trump on the grounds that globalization is bad and that a nationalistic president would slow globalization. He believes globalization is bad because it makes us more like China, a country that produces nothing original and instead clones everything innovative from the world. If I do have an opinion on anything, it that Thiel only supported Trump not because he believed in him, but because he knew it would put the brakes on everything he despised.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/08/thiel-globalization-is-over....