[oposa]

Thiel gets way too much credit for being pragmatic (or whatever you want to call it). As far as I have read he has held those views for a long time, whether you like them or not. It wouldn't surprise me if it goes back to his parents or something. It seem mostly just that people don't want to believe that the US has opinionated "media moguls" like Europe.

[ordinaryradical]

Agreed. Thiel wasn't playing realpolitik at all. He is adamantly anti-democratic in his political views and appreciated Trump precisely because he lined up neatly with his corporatist-authoritarian views.

Thiel has unusual politics that don't fit neatly along the right-left spectrum and lucked into a candidate that matched them more closely than anyone who had come before.

[moate]

>>don't fit neatly along the right-left spectrum

That's because it's more of a grid. You have 2 axis: Authoritarian/Libertarian, Economic Left/Economic Right.

If you're looking at it as a line, all sorts of things "don't fit neatly".