this is what happens when you bubble yourself off, censoring everything and everyone that might remotely challenge your world view. over time, his communications with others have pushed only farther and farther into ridiculous extremism, because he's excised anyone from his life who might remotely challenge his bad ideas. he's so delusionally disconnected from reality that jesse waters asked him some softball questions and didn't even have to pounce... the troon just proved everything waters wanted without waters even trying. waters just sat back because after the first question, anything harsher would have been like beating up on a literal infant.

the troon is legally an adult, but has the emotional maturity of a child.