He is certainly a lefty, but if you are straight with him, NC is straight with you. I don't think he has called me racist or implied it.
He isn't straight with most of us because he was ultra wrong on Trump and Russia. Now the guy just can't let it go.
So he kind of fits the old adage; if you're not liberal (Marxist?) when you're young, you have no heart. If you're not conservative when you're older, you have no brain.
That was Winston Churchill. He started out following his father as a Tory (conservative), switched to Liberal and with David Loyd George created the welfare state in England. He then switched back to the Tory party. He also said “Anyone can rat (switch party) but it take a special person to re-rat”.