I identify with "liberal" politics and parts of Thiel's RNC speech resonated with me, but I'm wondering if those parts were lost on the RNC's target demographic

I identify with "liberal" politics and parts of Thiel's RNC speech resonated with me, but I'm wondering if those parts were lost on the RNC's target demographic. For example: he says we should have gone to Mars instead of starting a war in Iraq (paraphrasing). I feel like the Republican demographic wouldn't care about going to Mars, and not to mention a bunch of people got rich off the war (at tax payer's expense of course). Then there's the part where he said the party shouldn't focus on fake "culture wars" like which bathrooms transgender people use. How were those parts received by the RNC's target audience?