Yeah, there's something contradictory about his obsession with Gawker outing him and his asserted openness about his orientation. Actually, Thiel's full of con

Yeah, there's something contradictory about his obsession with Gawker outing him and his asserted openness about his orientation. Actually, Thiel's full of contradictions. A professed libertarian celebrity hunting a media outlet over reporting too much information; someone claiming to be a defender of privacy founding a data mining company providing information to the government panopticon; a Stanford grad bemoaning the educational elite... do I need to go on? Thiel strikes me as someone who heavily hedges their bets, and is probably conflicted with themselves. I'm not surprised he supported Trump, really. I don't think it was about prescience as much as it was attraction to Trump's authoritarian, sensationalistic, prejudicial brand of quasilibertarianism. They're very similar in their political positions or outlooks -- Thiel is just shrewder, less crass, and probably more intelligent.