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In November, He wrote a long essay titled “The Stranger,” in which he labeled the Trump administration’s treatment of undocumented immigrants a “moral failure.”

“To call such people criminals for lacking official permission” to be in the country “is to forget the moral law of God, the historical truth of our own founding, and the Constitutional ideals that continue to define justice.”

Following the killing of Renee Good in Minnesota, he told the audience that ICE’s conduct “clearly looks like tyranny.” If the government threatened his family, he would fight back by whatever means necessary.

Hours after Pretti's death observed "When it comes to the more humanitarian side of it, I think the left has it much more correct than the nationalist right,"

Amongst his old mates this has not made him popular. Even if he isn't remotely siding with the “communist-anarchists,” “spurred by wickedness.”

finds this ideological betrayal totally baffling. He would start to say something—“I can’t understand how they think …” or “They just can’t, they can’t …”—only to abandon the thought mid-sentence. “It doesn’t make sense to me,” he told me finally. “It’s scary, actually.”

And so he is politically adrift. He certainly sees no home for himself on the “communist-anarchist” left. Nor does he identify anymore with the “nationalist” right and its authoritarian tendencies. The party that embraced him and the people who supported him have, by and large, left him behind.

He feels, he told me, “a little bit alone.”