Ah, well, if this just happened today and the american press has already shot out some tripe touting "5 Facts You Need To Know About Blahbiddy Blah Blah, clearly, there we have it.
Do you have any idea how many kids grow up in these places and rebel against the conservative small town values? It's these very values which drive them in the other direction. It's quite common.
How? Because could it be they are bombarded 24/7 by liberal ideas from television to billboards to radio to the violent video games and all the rest?
By my side I assume you mean the side of Americans? Your side appears to be the side of divisiveness and petty derision.
I'm not saying he was, but the indications we have thus far suggest that, a) he was probably an atheist, and b) he may have had a beef with conservative white christians. More stuff emerging about his hatred of Trump. None of this makes him a Progressive of course, but it certainly says something about his likely preferred causes. I would think any 'revolution' driven groups would be attractive to him, given he appears to have been an angry misfit, looking for trouble.
He got married age 23, with a 19 year old. His facebook profile foto showed 2 small children. I saw people rebel a little harder than what seems to be a rather typical very religious american marrying some childhood sweetheart asap.