Peter Thiel, as is his wont, caused a stir last week when he expressed doubts that a Republican could win the White House in 2028. In an interview in Berlin on the MD Meets podcast, the billionaire cofounder of Palantir said he was still a “Vance partisan,” but he cautioned that a debate over whether Marco Rubio or J.D. Vance would be the better nominee was less important than the threat of socialism. “If Democratic Socialists take over the Democratic party that’s a much bigger deal,” Thiel said. “That is the end of America.”

The PayPal godfather has already packed for the Pampas

The PayPal godfather has already packed for the Pampas

Thiel, who is a friend of mine, foresees parallels between the dynamics of right-wing populism and left-wing socialism. Just as Trump unseated the Bush family establishment in the Republican party in 2016, so too Zohran Mamdani and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez might evict the Clinton-Obama center left in 2028. That seismic shift could bring into the mainstream the full panoply of the extreme left’s platform: packing the Supreme Court, wealth taxes, nationalizing industry and eliminating the Electoral College.

Thiel “is just abysmally pessimistic” about Republican chances in 2028, no........

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