Yes, absolutely. He's still very young. I definitely don't think like I did when I was 18.
I won't be surprised if someday he flips completely to the opposite side of his current spectrum.
But wow, your headline. All I could think of when I saw that was, "yeah, probably".
I do think that the Ahmaud Arbery trial conviction changes the game on "vigilantism." An almost all white jury convicted these guys, and the prosecutor and judge were so solid an appeal has real no chance of winning.
The Rittenhouse case was always going to be a difficult prosecution. It's really hard to establish intent in a melee. I always felt like it was his parents who were the guilty party here - encouraging their 17 year old child to get involved in a street fight outside of the state he lived in. While shouldering an AR-15.