wait, we don't know...maybe the near death experience gentled his soul and he has become more reflective and less combative. Which is why he is a big fraidy cat.
This is one reason the Mormons are wary of these people. They love him for all the GOP normie things but they fear the 1st amendment issues and worry that they will be singled out as deviationists.
His view seems very Buckminster Fuller-eque too. Why waste the resources on "life unworthy of life" to quote the Nazis.
Life unworthy of life - Wikipedia