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Peter Thiel

Venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder

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Co-founded PayPal and Palantir and backed Donald Trump and JD Vance, arguing that bold technology, not incremental competition, drives progress while elites stagnate.

Peter Thiel sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly free market and slightly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly free market on economy, strongly tech-optimist on technology and strongly anti-establishment on institutions. The profile is close to the middle on interventionism.

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Where Peter Thiel sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authoritySlightly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentStrongly growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyStrongly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceSlightly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismCentered on interventionism
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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Political views closest to Peter Thiel

Thatcherism and ReaganismFree-market economics, tax cuts, deregulation and a firm stance toward the Soviet Union.88%FusionismBlends free-market and small-government ideas with traditional social values and a…87%Effective accelerationismArgues that rapid technological progress, especially in AI and energy, is the best path…86%SovereigntismInsists that national institutions, not international bodies, should have the final say.83%

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