Political Weirdos

You're trying to blame his shift on social media and the pandemic, and you're also claiming that the same thing happened to millions of other people for the same reasons, and I just haven't seen any evidence to support that.

We can point to people acting like lunatics during the pandemic, of course, but if you want to claim that to pandemic caused them to become lunatics then you would have to look at how they behaved prior to it. And you can try to blame social media for how people see politics, but there again I don't think the facts are on your side. Most people know that things your friend posts on Facebook may or may not be true. But many people, especially middle-aged and older people, believe that there's a great deal of truth in the 24-hour news cycle that they see on television, when in reality that's been highly tailored by the major news networks to make it seem like the sky is falling.

It has been remarked for a long time that many arrogant ultra rich people end up surrounding themselves by yes men, that insulation is created by their money and power, and over time their views grow unhinged because they don't have contact with the real world or the general public. We know this happens often enough, and if I were speculating, I'd say the same thing happened here.