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Silicon Valley titan Peter Thiel believes the 2024 presidential election wasn’t just another election — it was something special.

Speaking with The Free Press last week, he said it was a political revolution in which the left tried throwing everything it had against now-President-elect Donald Trump but wound up getting crushed anyway.

“The Democrats gave it their all,” Thiel began. “They spent two or three times as much money as Trump spent the last three, four months. It just didn’t work. The institutions tried to prosecute him, prosecute him criminally. They tried to take him off the ballot.”

“They tried to stop him in every way possible. And so unlike in 2016, this time it was Trump against the Democrats. The Democrats gave it their all, and it just collapsed,” he added.

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But it wasn’t just the Democrats who collapsed — it was their entire movement and ideology, Thiel maintained.

“I suppose it’s evidence of just the total collapse of the Democratic Party if you lose ground among both Jews and Muslims,” he said. “How do you [even] do that?”

“I can come up with all sorts of ways to explain it, but let’s just say as a fact, it suggests you that, wow, if you can’t even gain with one of those groups at the expense of the other, this whole identity politics thing has gone super haywire,” he added.

Exactly. After years of being ascendant, identity politics is finally slowly but surely dying off.

How did this happen? To explain, Thiel likened the Democrats to the Empire in “Star Wars.” Similarly, he likened Republicans to the Rebel Alliance.

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“The left, the Democratic Party, it’s like the Empire. They’re all imperial stormtroopers. We’re the Ragtag Rebel Alliance, and it’s an uncomfortably diverse, heterogeneous group.”

“You have, I don’t know, a teenage Chewbacca and Princess Lea-type character. Then we have an autistic C-3PO policy wonk person. It’s a ragtag rebel alliance against the Empire,” he added.

He also pointed to Silicon Valley becoming increasingly frustrated with the “woke” madness.

“I think there were a lot of pieces that had built up in Silicon Valley,” Thiel said. “There was always a way where, for many years, people had been doubling down on the ‘wokeness,’ the political correctness inside these companies. … And for a number of years, the intuition was, well, we just have to do a little bit more. We have to try a little bit harder and do a little bit more. And then there’s some point where it just got exhausted.”

“And certainly a lot of the top tech founders and CEOs felt comfortable telling me this behind closed doors. Maybe they’re just telling me things that I want to hear, but I tend to think they’re telling me what they really think. I was very aware of this incredible disconnect. And it was in Silicon Valley, I think a lot of it was experienced as corporate governance, as how ridiculous it’s gotten to manage these ideologically deranged millennial employees,” he added.

Thiel then turned to billionaire Twitter/X owner Elon Musk, whose work these past few years has been instrumental in changing the narrative.

“Elon gave people a great deal of cover,” he said. “It certainly seemed incredibly dangerous to me what he did, incredibly courageous. What would have happened to him if Trump would have lost?”

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Moving forward, Thiel warned that the upcoming four years may be more difficult than Trump’s original term in office.

“The problems [facing the nation] are extremely difficult —  they are harder than they were eight years ago,” he explained. “The border issue is out of control. So maybe you need to actually deport people instead of just building a wall.”

“And the foreign policy situation is, there’s a crisis in Russia, Ukraine. The Iran problem is far worse than it was eight years ago. The China-Taiwan thing. There’s all these ways that it feels like the world is sleepwalking to Armageddon. I think Trump is better than Harris. Is he good enough to stop us from Armageddon? I hope so. Not 100% sure that he’s good enough,” he added.

Listen to the full interview below:

(Video Credit: The Free Press)

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