Check this out:

> Thiel wrote: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” That wasn’t just a provocation, it was a programmatic declaration that aligns him with authoritarians both abroad and at home — culminating in a second Trump administration that daily tests the limits of US constitutional democracy.

What part of authoritarianism is pro-freedom again?

Democracy was obviously never pro-freedom - it's explicitly about the 51% taking freedom from the 49%.

I'm just confused how this twisted leftist publication has managed the mental acrobatics to claim pro-freedom means pro-authoritarianism.