I honestly can't figure out WHAT Foad is politically....
Well his avatar is from the Norman Mailer novel "The Armies of the Night"; a book about an anti-Vietnam war protest/march on the pentagon.
Mailer was a robust political figure who launched an unsuccessful bid to be the democratic candidate in the 1969 NYC mayoral race.
He also had these contentious debates with William Buckley billed as conservative vs. liberal. Although, Mailer rejected the term liberal to describe himself. Drunken left wing intellectual seems apropos.
So there's that.