Yeah, he definitely has gone off the rails lately with all the talk about the antichrist being a literal existing being with emissaries on earth. I haven't been watching his stuff but the little I've seen was unhinged.
Lately?
"I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." 2009
He is just executing on this, and some of religious technocratic nonsense beliefs just leaked a bit.
Thiel lost the plot long ago, just like his PayPal buddy did. The money went to their heads.
300 years into the future some historian will publish a book: "The downfall of the USA traced back to the PayPal Mafia".