I know a hardcore Trump supporter who is married and has two kids. He has confided in me that he is gay, and he has been caught twice soliciting explicit texts from other men on a company phone. He believes gay people are evil, and that it is evil to have gay thoughts, despite the fact that he is gay. He tries to resist these urges but fails. He's deeply unhappy.
Don't underestimate self-loathing. Dunno if that's what this shooter had, but it is certainly possible.
Conservatives who support Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro and the others aren't as culpable in violent incidents like this as the person who is in there pulling the trigger, but they don't have clean hands, either. Stochastic terrorism is very real.
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