People who are reliable Democrats and liberals who either sat out the 2024 election or voted Trump for the first time did not do so because they like Trump but because they wanted to give 'a middle finger to the capital' like in The Hunger Games analogy—they rejected the feeling of being controlled by an out-of-touch elite enforcing conformity.

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Speaker

Barry Weiss

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people...did not do it because they like Donald Trump most of them find him abhorent um they did it because they wanted to give a middle finger to the capital

Source

Peter Thiel on the Triumph of the Counter-ElitesThe Free Press
Created: 8/11/2026, 6:21:31 AM

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