Where do you see politics in this story? There's no discussion of Maynard's political views in the article, nor any indication that they may have influenced his behavior.
It's pretty hard to miss.
Yep - totally what some non-left winger would do.
The only meaningful mention of Trump in the article is:
> They commiserated about their hatred of Donald Trump, going deep down all the resistance rabbit holes. “We would sit across the table and talk for hours,” Kate says. “I was just soaking it in.”
That's not typical but not "nutjob" behavior. I'm not even sure it is "eccentric." Oodles of stable people spent a lot of time worrying about Trump while he was president (and still worry about him). Talking about how Trump is a mess for a long time is not evidence of a mental break or predictive of criminal arson or a reason to fire somebody.
And yeah, I think it is thoroughly reasonable to have a more extreme opinion about Trump than Gates, seeing as Trump has considerably more influence on my life than Gates does.
As opposed to Dubya, or Reagan, or Nixon? Every president with an R next to their name is supposedly the downfall of society, and their voters are all just rubes who were taken in by white supremacy?
I'd love to hear more of these "many examples" of Maynard being a left-wing nutjob, but my definition of "left-wing nutjob" doesn't include possessing opinions that might normally be associated with the run-of-the-mill Democratic voter.