He is enlightened

We need this, but for T**** supporters. (Though I guess books like that do already exist)

I love smart flat-earthers. They stumble in to how to do science: they have a hypothesis, and they construct all kinds of creative ways to test it, and then they learn for themselves and revise their models accordingly. That's how it's all supposed to work!

Now that's a character arc if I have seen one.