He is pretty embarrassing
I'm sure he has/had some intelligence in something at some point but he has clearly thrown it all away just to re-hash what a certain group of people say, with a few more words, which in turn make his readers and listeners feel clever
Quite a good business model, now I come to think of it.
If you compare him to someone like Mark Fisher (which you can do quite easily), he is a million miles away from ever being someone like him
He is like a 90's pop star of 'theory'. I guess at the time we all thought Backstreet Boys were cool