Leaked 2020 email from Palantir co-founder to Zuckerberg predicted Mamdani’s socialist triumph in New York

Tech titan Peter Thiel warned Silicon Valley in 2020 that rising millennial support for socialism stemmed from economic hardship, not ideology. His foresight appears validated by Zohran Mamdani’s election as New York’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor on a platform of housing affordability and debt relief, highlighting a growing demand for alternatives to a perceived rigged capitalist system.