My impression is that Nick was very much a political science project by his parents, determined from the start to raise a politician or at least a pundit. I base this partly on his mother's strange email to MTV producers.
“This was my mom's email to MTV last week about this special, it's important to remember that these are bad people and what they are doing is wrong.”
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Why would she think it helps to call him "far right" there? The delusion that "America First" wasn't headed off a cliff began with her, apparently, not with him.
And I think Nick accordingly has the kind of stunted, confused sexuality you see in people who were in show business from a young age, mindfucked by stage parents.
It'll end like a Cronenberg film, Nick grinning in surgical scrubs, stood over a disemboweled catboy.