Libertarian view: It’s Peter Thiel’s Party Now
Forget Donald Trump’s speech or daughter Ivanka’s — “the most intriguing, original and ultimately most optimistic speech” at Thursday night’s convention was given by Silicon Valley’s Peter Thiel, says Roger Simon at PJ Media. He identified himself as proudly gay and Republican, and “the audience gave him a standing ovation.” That alone, writes Simon, “would seem to be a game-changer in Republican politics.” Certainly, “the conventional liberal narrative about the GOP took a serious body blow.” In fact, he says, “liberals and progressives” — with their “worldview out of 1932” — “are the true fuddy-duddies of our time, more conservative than conservatives.”