I also had to leave that hellscape again

The kid was politically incoherent. Politics is incredibly divisive right now and republican messaging of: "we're in a civil war with demons Dems need to tone down the rhetoric and btw their violence is about trans and ours is about crime" is steeped with cynical irony the shooter would love

To Cecil (and with the consent of the world's governments) he is the authority over the situation. he is the only Human authority of the situation. It is fascistic but it's also literally an alien race of fascists he is fighting.
Intergalactic fascist infighting really /s