It's good that you brought up Hitchens. Like Trump, Dick Morris, Gingrich, and a variety of other larger-than-life 20th century figures, Hitchens had a magnet inside. When Russia switched its primary polarity from left to right, they promptly turned 180' in unison, like an iron bit in an MRI machine.

The PayPal Mafia smell a lot like those guys, like a 21st century unit of the same brigade. Some may have just waited longer than the others before dropping their cover.