Peter Thiel stands on stage before the start of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio in July. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was an "outsider" who will take on the elites Peter Thiel says. Photo: APLike Trump, Thiel believes in creative disruption or destruction. In his endorsements of Trump, Thiel would have his audience believe that he views the social fabric through the prism of conventional democracy – and certainly nothing seriously revolutionary or neo-reactionary. If Trump can delegitimise and disempower the "others", he's on his way to achieving the Thiel objective of the smaller democracy.

Source: Libya Today November 16, 2016 20:17 UTC