he hasn’t said anything particularly dunkworthy recently

Let’s test this.

Here we go, from five days ago:

So what does the right get right?

Well, sitting here in the capital city of the mightiest empire known to human history, I think one thing the right gets right is a patriotic attitude toward The United States of America.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/what-the-right-gets-right

Edit: Ahhhhh, it gets worse!

But Communism, to cite probably the most important example, was really bad!

And it was really bad even though a lot of earnest and well-meaning Communists were involved in good causes like civil rights and union organizing and opposition to apartheid. The fact that many people with good ideas and good intentions were also Communists and Communism killed millions of people and impoverished hundreds of millions just goes to show that sometimes really bad ideas get mixed in with worthy reforms. A century ago, eugenics had sterling progressive credentials. More recently, and less dramatically, thousands of people were murdered as a result of progressive over-enthusiasm for de-policing.