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The rich get fucked way less than what they get away with. That's why you've got prisons overflowing with low-income felons while everyone from Donald Trump to OJ Simpson seem immune to prosecution.
A big facet of 2025 is the way it immunizes members of the political elite from the policing they intend to inflict on everyone else. The "Freedom Cities" (often referred to as Charter Cities in other libertarian wet-dream proposals) revolve around granting dictatorial control in municipal districts to a handful of powerful property owners, fully exempt from a normal democratic process. The police, the judges, the prosecutors - they're all just employees of these oligarchs. In the same way that a CEO isn't threatened by the HR department, a guy like Thiel granted his own private fief through a California "Freedom City" charter would be immune to whatever anti-LGBTQ proposal Mike Johnson cooked up in the House.
The vacuum is being filled by these techbros.
Getting fucked does not mean going to prison. Getting fucked for rich people is when a meme tanks your stock 50%. The reason they're trying to codify this is so they dont ever get fucked again.
In this hypothetical (we hope) future, where being LGBTQ+ brands you as a pedophile and serves you the death sentence, the populace will become angry with the fact they are ruled by "one of them" and question why this is so.
Laws, after all, are not physically existing things. The law can say Thiel is fine on his fiefdom of lower SoCal. But it won't stop the head dictator from feeling like sending his gay crusher squad to all of Thiel's addresses in one night. And the only thing needed to make that decision happen is the swinging mood of the orange.