It's gotta be Peter Thiel. Most of the other candidates mentioned don't share Kissinger's discomfort with the spotlight. Cheney has not maintained the same iron grip on influence in his post-service years. W, McConnell, Pelosi, Trump, etc. are all elected officials, whereas a huge part of the Kissinger mystique was that his "genius" defi…
It's gotta be Peter Thiel. Most of the other candidates mentioned don't share Kissinger's discomfort with the spotlight. Cheney has not maintained the same iron grip on influence in his post-service years. W, McConnell, Pelosi, Trump, etc. are all elected officials, whereas a huge part of the Kissinger mystique was that his "genius" defied electoralism. Thiel has been trying to play chessmaster for decades now.
It's gotta be Peter Thiel. Most of the other candidates mentioned don't share Kissinger's discomfort with the spotlight. Cheney has not maintained the same iron grip on influence in his post-service years. W, McConnell, Pelosi, Trump, etc. are all elected officials, whereas a huge part of the Kissinger mystique was that his "genius" defied electoralism. Thiel has been trying to play chessmaster for decades now.