Which part explains why Thiel spent millions to get the antichrist elected President?

Daub (fellow Stanford pro) has analyzed his mindset. He explains Thiel's attraction to esotericism:

>Girard’s ideas are another flyby between tech and the academy. The Girardians may lament the marginal status of his theories within the academy; even Thiel may lament it. But secretly, or not so secretly, that marginality is what draws a man like Thiel to Girard. For in Girard you get your own intuitions repackaged as esoteric knowledge. You get a feeling of oppositionality while remaining at the center of things. You get to feel like a victim while having all the power. And this, as we’ll see, may be the most secret of Silicon Valley’s secret desires.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://fabricat...

Does it really take an entire article to explain how Thiel, like so many before him, has simply been corrupted by wealth? His choice of topics to obsess over seems pretty arbitrary to me.

Because he's jealous?

TL;DR cynical profit motive and/or still self-hating for being gay.

Edit: allegedly.