Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel recently made headlines after calling out what he sees as the Democratic Party’s shift away from elite credentials—a shift he says proves the party has become non-elite and less intelligent.
Speaking on The Rubin Report, Thiel criticized President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democratic figures, claiming the party used to be elite and intellectual but has taken a sharp turn in recent years.
“When Biden said he was a transitional candidate, it wasn’t a transition—he was not going to have a sex change operation,” Thiel said. “It was transitional from smart to dumb, from elite to very non-elite.”
Thiel went further, mocking Harris for attending Howard University instead of Harvard. “You couldn’t even point this out. This is probably a racist thing to say or something.”
He added that the Democratic Party’s younger leadership lacks the meritocratic credentials of older figures like Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
“By the time you get to Walz, it’s way worse. The credentials are even dumber than Kamala’s. There are no smart people left.”
MAGA and Elitism
The remarks sparked backlash from progressive commentator Kyle Kulinski, who accused Thiel of revealing the true beliefs of the MAGA elite. “He looks down on you if you didn’t go to an Ivy League school,” Kulinski said on his show. “He thinks you’re a peasant. You should be a corporate slave.”
Kulinski argued that Thiel’s elitist comments expose the disconnect between MAGA rhetoric and MAGA reality.
The Decline of Harvard and the Rise of Skepticism
Despite emphasizing elite credentials when criticizing Democrats, Thiel also criticized Harvard and other top universities as institutions in decline.
“Elite credentialing has collapsed on the left,” he said. According to him, Harvard used to mean something, and now it’s churning out robots.
Thiel said students at top schools today are learning less than ever. “There’s not a single class that’s as hard as any class they had in high school,” he said of Yale undergrads. “It’s unbelievably easy. You get an A in every class.”
A Gray-Pilled Future
While Thiel warned against returning to a bloated, overregulated government system, he said he doesn’t want a wave of arrests or prosecutions to fix what he sees as systemic rot. Instead, he proposed a truth and reconciliation model to “come clean” about past government abuses and prevent them from happening again.
Still, many critics say his own remarks reflect an old-guard elitism that ignores real-world struggles. As Kulinski put it, “They want all the money, all the power, all the control, and they want you to know your f***ing role in society.”
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