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Maybe Trump wasn't extremist enough for him. Or maybe he recognized that Trump and the Republican party have ceased being "conservative" a long time ago. Or maybe he recognized Trump as the danger to America.
Or he wanted a different candidate. Imagine if he was a vivek ramaswamy fan lol
I keep wondering if he thought Trump was just the right target to kick off the Boogaloo
Now that is a good theory
My personal suspicion (not based on any hard data, just a guess) is that he was a right-wing accelerationist who thought that killing Trump and/or his supporters would encourage others to "fight back" against the liberals and start the war the right has been itching to fight for decades. I've seen that same thing before in the boogaloo boys.
Pure speculation but, given his age, there is a good chance he saw Trump and American Conservativism as the Nazi cover operation it is and wanted to fight his own WW2 against overwhelming evil. College is about the time we learn the world doesn't run like a small town and massive things can exist like human rights abuses and amoral politics. He probably felt Tlthat shock and frustration that the world continues to be ruthless because and in spite of us.
Then he saw a figurehead for the alt right and decided to be the change he wanted to see in the world.
I mean, if he was staunchly conservative, learning those facts would only make him care less about others. After all, God only punishes the evil! If you're being enslaved, it's because you're bad!
... This is a direct thought pattern I've witnessed many times in conservatives. They use any tragedy as a sign that the person it befell is bad. Similarly, they might view the close call as protection by "god"...
Yes, conservatives have the brains of children.
Eh, nobody's described him as religious yet, only conservative.
My point still stands for every religous conservative. I'm not speaking to the shooter specifically, but conservative brain rot in general.
If you think conservative brain rot is limited only to the religous, then you are extremely foolish.
He was young enough to be a Believer of Buckley. He may have actually believed in being right wing by principle and didn't like hypocrisy.
Notice how I started my post with, "even if". I'm not talking about the shooter specifically, but Republican brain rot in general.
If you think moronic religous beliefs don't have a huge influence on conservatives, you haven't been paying attention at all.