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Given the choice between Thiel (favors reconstitution of our political establishment and believes in science and technology) and the rest of the Trump hangers-on (are ambivalent towards reconstitution of the establishment and are anti-science), this is a decent outcome.

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"believes in science and technology"

Not really, since he denies global warming: https://youtu.be/CoxxGhLFbw4?t=2m25s

Not believing in a particular scientific viewpoint does not mean one does not believe in science. Most of the great scientific discoveries were at one point contrary to the collective scientific wisdom, e.g. heliocentricity, evolution, quantum mechanics, relativity.

*Note: I'm not equating a lack of belief in AGW with relativity.

...and when presented with the weight of evidence, we accept reality and start to account for it. For instance, when we noticed that our refrigerants were busting a hole in our house, with strong political will we stopped making them, and today the ozone layer is recovering.

Imagine if Reagan had torpedoed the Montreal Protocol. That's what we're talking about here.

The man has spent his entire life working in technology.

But since he disagrees with you on one controversial issue, he has not.

He seems to believe that climate change is "more pseudoscience" [than science], at least that was his opinion when Glenn Beck interviewed him in 2014.

I'm afraid what Theil wants is a reconstitution of the Reagan Coalition, which was resoundingly defeated in the primary this year.

That would be a complete waste of time, especially considering its opposite, the New Left, will die along with it. Please let's kill two birds with one Trump and move past the neoliberal era.

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