His parents were Marxist I think. His mom (a black woman) makes cool collage art with a progressive bent and is a civil rights activist. His dad was a German Jewish pediatrician and wrote a book on redlining, poverty and how lead poisoning was affecting communities and children.

He was raised with at the very least a very progressive world view. So like, he knows more about being progressive than a lot of people and then chose to do what he does. That’s worse imo.