I think there’s a tremendous amount of ground between these two endpoints. And agree that public sentiment is likely shifting, since enough massacres will generate revulsion in the most unlikely places.
He might be an outlier but I do recall that the reason Mateen killed 49 people finally dribbled out. Not because he was a conflicted homosexual, not because he felt marginalized by all the suspicion/bigotry coming his way, but because:
The strategy of most of the last decade isn’t working. What will eventually replace it is likely to give CAIR a stroke.