Honestly it’s just too muddy with details to even make an educated guess either way. Perhaps the kid himself doesn’t even know.
What I’ve found is that his family we republicans maybe even Maga. Mormon church goers. The kid himself hasn’t voted in the last few elections so seems he wasn’t party affiliated.
Now he did kill a right winger and my first thought was oh man this isn’t good for us if someone in the left.
Seems the kid was terminally online and into obscure meme culture. My theory is either a different kind of right winger that didn’t like Kirk or someone who was in the middle and just saw both sides as divisive. Or that he rebelled against his parents and went more left recently. So basically I’ve no clue and anybody that claims to know is not being truthful right now and we should wait for more evidence or for the kid himself to speak up. Otherwise we are I just as bad as those on the other side.