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GEM is generally fine from what i've seen; it's also hard to feel sympathetic for Nate even though 538 is his baby. a lot of his colleagues don't like him (because he apparently presided over a very bro-ey, douche-y culture) and he's kind of a dipshit disaffected libertarian who loves to speak out of his ass on things he doesn't understand via Twitter.
I don’t buy the libertarian thing. I used to listen to his political podcast on the regular, it was pretty clear that he was no fan of right wing politicians.
it's possible he dislikes many current right-wing politicians, but he explicitly described himself in 2012 with the following quote and hasn't really shown much indications he's deviated far from this belief: "I'd say I’m somewhere in between being a libertarian and a liberal. So if I were to vote, it would be kind of a Gary Johnson versus Mitt Romney decision, I suppose."
I think he has kind of an inherent distrust of politicians/politics in general so that does kind of track. I'm not 100% sure his personal beliefs but he has never really expressed a progressive viewpoint that's for sure (and not saying it's a bad thing).