I wrote this essay (from my HN comments) about Peter Thiel before Trump got into power. https://medium.com/@internaut_48577/peter-and-the-wolfe-b8de.. https://

I wrote this essay (from my HN comments) about Peter Thiel before Trump got into power. https://medium.com/@internaut_48577/peter-and-the-wolfe-b8de.. https://medium.com/@internaut_48577/peter-and-the-wolfe-b8de.... And here is the original comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12884413 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12884413 Here is a teaser: "I think what most passers-by to Thiel’s Trump endorsement have wrong, is that they think this is some kind of fluke like a random personality quirk or even a midlife crisis. Hence the whole affair may be dismissed as the ramblings of a strange mad billionaire. If you watch Thiel’s presentations going back over a decade, you’ll see something different. These are all public but it takes about a hundred hours or more so most people have jumped around, looking for the gist of what is going on, such as all these journalists attempting to psychoanalyze Thiel, with the obvious motives that first: something weird needs to be explained (100 journalists at the recent press conference!) and less honorably second: he has to be vilified as a prominent opposing political entity external to their tribe. This is unfortunate because the truth is far more interesting albeit very difficult to explain in a way that would impart an understanding..."