Peter Thiel and the Triumph of the Counter-Elites (podcast)

This podcast episode from The Free Press argues that the 2024 election and Elon Musk's appointment to lead the Department of Government Efficiency mark the triumph of the counter-elite, with Peter Thiel as its vanguard. The host notes that Thiel was the first prominent figure in Silicon Valley to publicly embrace Trump in 2016, a stance that cost him business at Y Combinator, but that many tech titans, including Bill Ackman, Marc Andreessen, and David Sacks, have since joined Trump. The episode covers Thiel's explanation of why his peers came around to Trump, his view of why Kamala Harris and liberalism lost, and his ideas about World War III.