They very clearly showed the enormous 180 in belief and values, which I think everyone agrees is probably not a natural evolution of ideology, but then there is not very much attention paid to what we know about why he did it.

They list the various options as to why (although I'm not sure I saw a mention of blackmail) but don't seem to have dug into any of them or tried to get any evidence of any of them.

I actually think he may have been bought by Thiel hence his fawning over the central casting useless front-man JD fucking Vance. Really Russ? Him?

Still, he's shown himself to be a craven "dogma for dollars" douchebag and I never pay attention to anything he puts out now.