My family are pretty liberal. My dad is an architect and my mom is a vet. My brother has always been a pretty cool guy but he has changed. He has started becoming more outwardly religious. And becoming more annoyed by others. He is studying to go to law school and always gets top grades. However, he is becoming more anti-social (one particularly concerning thing he has told us is that there is a student in his class whom he suspects is an illegal and may call ICE on them). None of my family really use drugs as such. None of us smoke and do any recreational drugs. And neither my brother nor I drink. My parents have made it clear they don't mind us doing these (so long as we say safe), however it has just never appealed to us.
However, my brother has more recently become very critical of drug users. He supposedly told one person at school that he hopes they overdose when he found out they took pills (and they have not shown up to school recently). And he recently broke up with his girlfriend because he found out she was using. She left the house in tears (he called her a 'degenerate druggie'). My mom told him to go apologise and he said he did but I am not sure that happened.
He has also become much more religious and conservatively so. For instance, where he was tolerant of sex-same relationships before, he now finds them to be 'disgusting' and 'vile'. He has become very conservative on abortion and has attended a rally against this.
I should add btw that he is not a threat to either himself or others. He never gets angry at all and he has never been violent, (indeed he has always said to me that the way to influence change is not through violence but through the law). He is very kind to animals as well, he loves his pet parrot in particular.
There is no much we can do (even if we don't agree with his views). He is not breaking the law or anything (indeed the opposite in fact) and he gets top grades and such. We are liberal as a family and that means letting him find his path.
Is there anything I can do that might change his mind or is it just a matter of him developing at some point?
TL;DR My brother has turned very conservative and I am concerned he has fallen into the Alt-Right.
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