Mr Lindell is a (supposedly) recovering addict. He was addicted to drugs, then to some weird jeebus-based religion, and now he’s apparently addicted to merkin von bankrupt and its authoritarianism. Sometimes an addict’s motivations may seem easy to understand, other times not.
What Peter Lorre said in The Boogeyman Will Get You! is true of everyone.
“Sic transit gloria mundi, which means what I wanted to say: one never knows the secret of his neighbor’s brain.”