He's said he left to get away from what was going on there and his father, but something might have stuck, or made him more susceptible to going down the bad road.

Like wtf is up with him refusing to acknowledge his daughter and dead name her and say the woke school killed his son.

Did being raised in an area with views do that, even though he tries to leave, or did he come to that entirely on his own?

Either way raised in it or not, people can change, and ultimately he has not.

Edit: also the timing with his daughter is around where things started changing outwardly more dramatically, and he's stated it was part of why he got into right wing politics.