> Are you able to do a steelman of Thiel's politics, where Thiel himself would agree with your characterization? Would someone acting in bad faith ever agree t

> Are you able to do a steelman of Thiel's politics, where Thiel himself would agree with your characterization? Would someone acting in bad faith ever agree to such a thing? Maybe you could goad him into saying yes once but the right tends to use terms like "strawman" or "silencing" as a thought terminating cliche without any attempt to make clarifications.