Out of touch? Who'd want to be in touch with a war criminal like Hillary? I don't want to be in that touch.
Should a businessman run a country? I don't know.
Should a criminal terrorist enabler run a country? I do know: No.
I think you misread the article. The article headline is paraphrasing Theil saying that Silicon Valley's majority support for Clinton is out of touch. Basically things are going well here, so they aren't aware of how ready the rest of the country is for change that will allow them similar economic prosperity. I personally disagree with Thiel, but I at least bothered to understand what the article was about.
When you're calling people racist for supporting the Republican nominee, you are out of touch.
No one is accusing Thiel of being racist in this article.