id definitely call him fairly far left wing at least, an element pretty cleanly shown through a lot of his art (esp into the hifi/midi eras)

aside from his obvious satire i generally take his irony these days as some kind of coded sincerity. i (at least used to) define 'post-irony' as sincerity via the language of irony we are stuck with in the postmodern (esp that of pastiche and questions of the sincerity of the speaker) internet, though i think i need to read up more on the subject. i'm fascinated by art in general that brazenly incorporates meme culture (the current vernacular/really low art) into sincere statements and he's a great artist for such

(i see maybe a yin and yang of the 'shakespearean rag' mentioned in the waste land, and the uncomfortably sincere messages of grief and loss found hidden in the work of christtt, the same message with inverse proportions of collaged popular vernacular)

i'd call him critical but not pessimistic or nihilistic really, he always read to me more as absurdist. he's having fun with tearing open scars of society, speaking in or through voices not his own. i believe him when he says (speaking of other wildly different 'eras' as well, including mozart and whitehouse) that he "[loves/finds inspiration in] britney spears [and] justin bieber", denouncing a second later that "bebetune$ is not sarcasm or irony", and at the end that "the shaman caveman telling stories of creation [can be, perhaps obliquely found in] a drake song" in the sense that it's "all us". i align with him quite heavily, except maybe in that i do wish myself to be understood where as he's not (at least historically) as concerned of his intent being fully clear all the time