Elon Musk emerged during the 2024 election as Donald Trump’s biggest supporters.
The stakes of the election quickly dawned on Musk.
And Elon Musk said Trump winning prevented this scary future for America.
Elon Musk warned the future of America was in peril
Tech investor Peter Thiel was one of Donald Trump’s biggest backers in the 2016 election.
But Thiel soured on Trump and didn’t plan to support him at all in 2024.
Now that the election is over, Thiel admitted he made a mistake.
Thiel said that Elon Musk was right when he warned that Trump losing meant Democrats could essentially end American democracy.
“I didn’t want to believe Elon when he said this, so I texted him and told him I hadn’t believed you when you said this at first. But I think this is because, psychologically, I don’t want to believe that,” Thiel stated.
Thiel stated that on all the issues that mattered in 2024 – inflation, the border, crime, and foreign policy – Donald Trump held an objectively superior record from his first term in office to Kamala Harris.
And Thiel admitted Musk made a convincing case that if the Swamp could muscle Kamala into the victor’s circle under these circumstances, then elections would be pointless going forward because the Swamp could just handpick whatever President it wanted.
“The sense in which I felt that he was correct was if Trump, with much better substance and much better on so many things, could not win in 2024 against the machine, then the machine would always win,” Thiel continued.
Competitive elections are the foundation of democracy, and if the voters don’t have a real choice since the President will always get picked from a Swamp-approved roster of candidates, the American experiment, where the public freely chooses their leaders, ends.
Thiel pointed to how Joe Biden lost all the early Primaries in 2020 to Bernie Sanders but how Democrat elites then rigged the Primary so Biden could be the nominee.
“And if the machine always wins, then you no longer have a democracy. You certainly no longer have a democratic process within the Democratic Party. We can always debate the election shenanigans in November 2020,” Thiel added.
“The far more extraordinary thing was in March of 2020 when Biden came in fourth or fifth in Iowa and New Hampshire and then somehow got rammed through South Carolina. All the other candidates drop out,” Thiel continued.
Four years later, party bosses pushed Biden aside and anointed Kamala Harris as the nominee without her winning a single vote was evidence of the type of future Democrats saw for America more broadly, Thiel explained.
“So, this extremely non-democratic primary in the Democratic Party in 2020 led to an even less democratic process in which Biden was replaced with Harris,” Thiel declared.
Thiel – a Silicon Valley staple – said if the entire institutional might of the Democrat Party and Washington, D.C. Swamp won this election, then America would end up like California where the only drama in any election is which Democrat emerges victorious in the Primary.
“If the machine could defeat Trump, I thought it was reasonable that it would gain even more power and somehow be unbeatable, and the country would become like California, a one-party state,” Thiel concluded.
