The old man was a rabid Fox News watcher. Who would have guessed that watching that all the time would make you scared all the time?
“But in the last five or six years or so, I feel like we’ve lost touch,” he said. “I’ve gotten older and gained my own political views, and he’s become staunchly right-wing, further down the right-wing rabbit hole as far as doing the election-denying conspiracy stuff and COVID conspiracies and disinformation, fully buying into the Fox News, OAN kind of line. I feel like it’s really further radicalized him in a lot of ways.”
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article274517706.html
The good news for him is he likely won't see himself on the news.
Despite its usual obsessive coverage of crime, Fox News largely ignored the shooting of Ralph Yarl, dedicating only 13 minutes to the story
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-largely-ignored-shooting-ralph-yarl