He's demoralized. He had potential, but he gave up his personal agency. Instead of creating his own beliefs, he embraced other people's beliefs, squandering his potential. Like a good cog in the agi-prop machine, he now vigorously defends ideologies antithetical to the long term continuity of his stated concepts.

He either doesn't possess the intelligence to see this, or he fears facing the dissolution of his construed concept of what constitutes reality for him. Towing the party line, the popular endorsed consensus provides an intoxicating comfort to him. Where big daddy authority gives him a knowing pat on the head, "you've been a good boy for me today haven't you? Called anyone that disagreed with my talking points subhumans, slandered and mocked them with Wikipedia and Snopes copypasta drivel, atta boi."