Perhaps you should take a very close look at management. Persons of this “caliber” are not common. He was locked out of a group of applicants. Perhaps you should also terminate the manager for such poor choices in his hiring practices.
Not sure what hiring standards you expect. It’s a VAPE SHOP.
Unless they didn’t ask him about his political views when they hired him. I have never been asked about my political views when interviewed.
In this day and age retail is lucky to find employees who can coherently string two sentences together.