{"id":1776549,"date":"2022-12-15T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1776549"},"modified":"2022-12-15T13:34:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T18:34:14","slug":"gop-megadonor-peter-thiel-laments-midterms-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-megadonor-peter-thiel-laments-midterms-showing\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Megadonor Peter Thiel Laments Midterms Showing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-megadonor-peter-thiel-laments-midterms-showing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1776549&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/article_Screenshot_2022-12-15_at_12.50.59.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Billionaire tech entrepreneur and Republican megadonor Peter Thiel has <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3775685-peter-thiel-calls-midterms-not-merely-disastrous-but-also-depressing-for-gop\/\">lamented<\/a> what he described as a &#8220;disastrous&#8221; showing for the GOP in this year&#8217;s midterm elections, warning that the party must change strategy to avoid defeat throughout the rest of the decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe part of it that\u2019s not merely disastrous but also depressing is just the sense that if we don\u2019t do something different, we\u2019re just gonna be in this Groundhog Day where something like this is going to repeat in 2024, or throughout the rest of this decade,\u201d Thiel during a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Having kept a low profile throughout the 2020 cycle, Thiel put his own money behind candidates including venture capitalists J.D. Vance in Ohio and Blake Masters in Arizona, with only the former succeeding in election to the upper chamber.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thiel described his own comments as \u201cfree advice for the Republican party,&#8221; explaining that the GOP\u00a0had been \u201cstructurally\u201d set a blowout victory based on issues like inflation and rising gas prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you can\u2019t sort of win in that kind of a context, how are you ever going to win?\u201d Thiel asked, adding that the GOP failed to put forward a \u201csubstantive agenda\u201d and ran a \u201cdiscombobulated\u201d campaign nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiversity was more of a weakness than a strength in our party,\u201d he said, comparing the party to the \u201cragtag rebel alliance\u201d from the iconic\u00a0<em>Star Wars <\/em>film franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Thiel brought up figures such as\u00a0Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) as reasons for the party&#8217;s failure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was sort of a Mitch McConnell intuition that you shouldn\u2019t talk about anything substantive at all, sort of a nihilistic, maybe a passive-aggressive form of nihilism or something like that \u2026 which is kind of uninspiring,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cAnd then there was maybe\u00a0his sort of a opposite problem, something like the detailed Paul Ryan policy wonkery, where you go into a lot of details, but somehow the ideas are unpopular and you\u2019re checkmate on move one.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thiel&#8217;s comments come amid a period of internal discord within the party following the disappointing results that saw the GOP capture the House of Representatives by a razor-thin majority and lose ground in the Senate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many Republicans are now actively calling for the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3774078-mcdaniel-seeks-to-fend-off-rnc-leadership-challenge\/\">resignation<\/a> of RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel, who has held the role for six years. 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