He was a contingency engineer during the Apollo missions. FOX News wasn't around yet, but he was definitely a Reagan/Bush Republican and believed the welfare queen / DEA rhetoric.

Once FOX News pivoted from fair and balanced conservative news-casting to outright false propaganda, he absolutely got worse.

The weird thing is as a kid he taught me about news literacy, that you have to distill the facts of a story from multiple sources in order to see the bias of the news agency, and this was during a time that news media all came from big agencies that were motivated by profit. We didn't yet have the independent news revolution that came with the internet.

I suspect now, FOX News is all he watches, since he sometimes leaks their talking points to me in conversations when they're not appropriate. (Cult identity signalling. It's a thing.)