That's the effect he's looking for: the view from nowhere. Like many others in the US and Oz, he simply cannot say that one side has 'gone rogue'

In my reading of him he’s deeply critical of the view from nowhere. I don’t think he’d disagree that the republicans have gone rogue - he calls Trump ‘American grotesque’ but he strongly disagrees that Democrats are the solution. An alternative sure. A solution, no.