Thompson's books had an acidic tone to them. He was more comfortable getting high, raping, and looting with the Hell's Angels or getting stoned in public than in having a political dialogue of any kind. He was right. Liberalism was right. Nixon was wrong and the millions who voted for Nixon were dolts and idiots.
He's have been a great local commissar in Stalin's Russia. He was just born at the wrong time and in the wrong country. He and Beria would have been great drunken pals.
By the way, I went to AA.
I've always thought of suicide as self-inflicted Karma