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Neither. He is an ideologue.
I think he believes sincerely that what he is doing is right. He simply believes uncompromisingly in his own vision, which is dangerous when your vision is informed by half-baked born-again End Times nonsense, a silver-spoon upbringing, and a startling lack of knowledge and information. He sees things as black and white and has no feeling for nuance, and I don't think he has the patience to try to understand complicated systems. He needs to have situations broken into familiar, easily understood narratives, which leads to poor understanding of the larger situation and therefore poor decisions and poor outcomes.
However, in my more cynical moments I wouldn't put it past him to just be engineering a massive wealth-grab for him and his buds. Evil.
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