I guess it needs to be said a billion times more: Thiel isn't just any Trump supporter, he's a powerful billionaire who has donated millions as a Trump surrogate. Thiel deserves all the criticism he is getting precisely because there a huge asymmetry at play here, one that he is taking advantage of to campaign for a con man, racist, chauvinistic sexual predator.

I fear this is just the beginning of Thiel's radicalization, that we can expect several decades of his alt/far right advocacy and I find the harm he can cause to be very troubling and disheartening.