‘Are the National Conservatives Winning, Son?’
News Analysis
Peter Thiel had a question.
“How do we do better than California?” he asked, looking around the packed hall.
The crowd was listening. It was, after all, the first talk on the first day of Miami’s National Conservatism Conference (NatCon III), and tech mogul Thiel was among the event’s largest funders.
Apple CEO Tim Cook (R) and PayPal founder Peter Thiel (C) listen as President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with technology industry leaders at Trump Tower in New York on Dec. 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
They’d arrived hours or just minutes beforehand, negotiating the tropical, maze-like grounds of the resort hotel like figures in a daytime de Chirico: politicians, journalists, think tankers, and the donor class….