I suspect that HST was well into his “get good with God ephihany” well before he put three bullets into his brain. Perhaps that is why he had to be “eliminated”. Fear and lothing works at least three ways to the Sabbath.
Really, when he interviewed SlickWillie prior to ‘92 election he had nothing good to say about him -from outer jacket liner notes to his book on subject “...after the snake bites the old lady, he says to her- “yah knew I was a snake(skank) when yah picked me up.”
Given that HST had P.J. O’Rourgue as a running buddy, I suspect HST to be at least a libertarian if not a closet conservative - his drug-addiled brain/lifestyle not ignored.
HST was friends with Pat Buchanan too.