How about "not afraid to make reasonable insights that run the risk of being misinterpreted as politically incorrect"? I watched his RNC speech for the first time today (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTJB8AkT1dk). I couldn't fault it. Maybe if we could park our bourgeois principles for a moment and listen to the voices of the economically depressed regions in the country that voted for Trump, we could unite and find a common solution? It seems to me this is what Thiel stands for. Half the country has been suffering at the hands of technological progress, environmental regulation and globalization for almost three decades, while the Bay Area has thrived in its economic bubble. What is progress for if it doesn't help people?