It's not so much that Thiel is deluded. What I think leaves many of us aghast is the entitlement and lack of empathy it takes for wealthy white men to not see

It's not so much that Thiel is deluded. What I think leaves many of us aghast is the entitlement and lack of empathy it takes for wealthy white men to not see what Trump and his supporters will and are doing to many of our friends and family. At this point they are willfully blind, but because it doesn't affect them personally, that makes it ok. When Trump and/or his surrogates angrily scream that the election is being stolen (by black people), that black people voting is illegitimate, that it's ok to jail your political opponents, that the current president is illegitimate because he's black, or he didn't rape her because she's not hot enough, it makes it fundamentally not ok to support him. Romney or Bush really didn't make similar claims. People who support Trump with speeches and money should be shunned.