Posted on 03/15/2018 12:21:04 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Billionaire venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel predicts that Donald Trump will get a second term in 2020. “I think that if he runs again, he will get re-elected,” Thiel said at an event hosted by the Economic Club of New York on Thursday.
Thiel also expects that it’s “probably the case” that the Democrats will do “quite well” in the midterm elections this fall. “The question about 2020 is a much trickier one,” Thiel said. “It’s really one of — is there anything that was learned from Hillary Clinton’s defeat?” He added that he thinks there’s a “vague parallel” to the way the Democrats have treated Trump to the way Republicans treated President Barack Obama.
Thiel added that the “fundamental mistake” Mitt Romney made in 2012 is thinking that he could just show up and win.
“There’s a reason Obama got elected. There were some very real problems in this country. You had to talk about those problems,” he said. “It was a failure by the Republicans not to do that in 2012. And I think the Democrats are setting themselves up for an even bigger version of that failure.”
Trump “hate factory”
He noted that a “hate factory of hating Trump all the time” is going to prevent Democrats from “seriously engaging with the issues.” Thiel, a Republican, was the most prominent voice in Silicon Valley to publicly support Trump. At the 2016 Republican National Convention, Thiel said that Trump is a “builder” and that he would “end the era of stupid wars.” ...
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I’m afraid you are right.
They’ve all but become totally unhinged this time.
And you’re also right about that powder advice.
Back in 1860, the Democratic Party was stupid enough to split.
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