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> They realize, Thiel said, that Trump doesn’t really plan to build a wall. “What they hear is, ‘We’re going to have a saner, more sensible immigration policy.’ ”

I totally disagree, they absolutely believe that he wants to build a wall and that Mexico will pay for it. See "End Illegal Immigration Act" outlined here: https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/_landings/contract/O-TRU-102...

Peter Thiel is naive to think this is not literal.

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But that's still on paper. Thiel may be wrong in that a wall gets built anyway. But he seems right in predicting that people who prioritize immigration policy will vote for Trump even if they know he can't fulfill his promise, because some reform is better than nothing. I don't think that prediction in itself is genius, but yeah, too many in the media were too self-assured that only wall-building extremists would vote for Trump, thus, leaving Clinton with the majority.

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