I've no idea, it's beyond my imagining that anyone could need the money THAT bad, and how much money are we talking about anyway? She sells a lot of books and doesn't need to take abuse to sell books. She seems too sensible to be a masochist or an attention hog. Too smart to believe she can convert idiots with logic.
Who can say? Different strokes.
My take is she is doing it for new material.
Next book “Brainless”?
She doesn’t need the money, but she probably enjoys the challenge, and it gives her video material for her guest appearances to prove her points about libs.
But what we are experiencing now is like in 1860—the pressure in the pot is building, and it is not going to end well. It won’t be blue and grey this time—it will be blue and red.