>Him turning away from the right because of the Iraq War and 2008 financial crisis seems kinda strange given that more 'left' wing parties also backed both in m

>Him turning away from the right because of the Iraq War and 2008 financial crisis seems kinda strange given that more 'left' wing parties also backed both in many parts of the world (like the UK, and probably the US) and how many people on both sides disagreed with one or both policies, which makes it questionable whether they'd be rightly counted as 'right wing' or 'conservative' ones. He's an independent thinker. Instead of automatically affirming everything one side believes, he thinks out each major issue on its own merits. That was the point of how it was freeing to break with the conservatives on both of these issues. That is why he says we need solid thinkers on both the liberal and conservative sides.