This whole movement is a thinly veiled power play; there is zero intellectual depth to it. The whole thing reduces down to Thiel wanting to place himself and his friends at the top of the hierarchy. The line in the article about replacing the bureaucrats in government with political appointees was pretty telling. I’d assume these goons would sell off the government to the likes of Palantir.
And the tie-in to left wing economics is a complete sham - this ecosystem of “influencers” co-opt communist aesthetics to broaden their appeal. I regrettably looked through socially conservative communist Reddit recently and there was zero talk of economics. All I saw was naked racism and people saying they converted to fundamentalist Islam or became a Trad Cath in order to return to a more traditional way of life.