PayPal and Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel has long held outrageous ideological views — and imposed them on the world using his billions of dollars in wealth to do things like build ICE’s massive surveillance panopticon, support the rise of the “New Right,” and destroying Gawker Media by secretly funding Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against it.

His beliefs during that period — an explosive mixture of race science, libertarianism, and rugged capitalism — might strike many people as noxious, but at least they followed the internal logic of an extremely powerful tech billionaire. Now, though, leaked information is making it sound as though he’s actually losing his grip.

For years, rumors have swirled that Thiel has developed some kind of obsession with the “Antichrist,” an entity referenced in the B

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