<...Maybe he wanted to get as far away from his conservative, suburban parents as he could.

Maybe you need to read more about this. His folks were the cream of Marin liberals, his mother was a Buddhist, and his Dad left his son and his family to live with a guy who ran gay bathhouses in the Bay Area. Reportedly, they are "just friends," and there is no proof otherwise.

If Walker was rebelling against something, it wasn't against conservatism. In fact, he went completely off the deep end, looking for some kind of structure in his wrecked life. In 1930's Germany, he no doubt would have been an enthusiatic Hitler supporter.