He thinks contrail chemicals, food poisons, medical over prescription are all part of a coordinated assault on the poor. That climate change is hiding all of those truths. He's not wrong about the coordinated assault but I assigning undue sophistication to that assault invents a powerful boogeyman

So powerful that any hope of overcoming it is impossible to imagine. He almost invites that since it confirms his conspiratorial biases (against experts) and reinforces his very real feeling of helplessness. I told him I can't try to pretend I know more than experts in subjects I know little about