An Inconvenient Truth About Silicon Valley and Donald Trump

[Commentary] In classic Silicon Valley fashion, Peter Thiel made a contrarian bet that the ideas Donald Trump espoused — primarily, that many Americans weren’t being served by the current establishment, and a massive disruption could unleash the change they needed — would be embraced. He was right.

The danger is that Thiel’s stab at remaking the administration under President-elect Trump will turn out as misguided as his attempt to build a program to replace college — instead of introducing the change that will make all of America great again, it will simply make a lot of rich white men (and a few women) even richer and more entrenched than they already are.