You have a point but to be fair, maybe he genuinely changed his views as he saw the "sector of society we used to describe as liberal America" develop, over the

You have a point but to be fair, maybe he genuinely changed his views as he saw the "sector of society we used to describe as liberal America" develop, over the last few years, a larger and larger subset that can fairly be described as a hysterical cult. This last decade has, it seems to me, seen quite a rise in hysterical cultism on both major sides of the American political spectrum.