He writes for the Washington Post and the Atlantic. He is a vehement anti-G.O.P. barker. And in the writing you've pasted, his entire point isn't research methodology, but a way to paint the right as ill-informed people who need to trust people like him. Nowhere does he offer any criticism of the bad data used in leftist "research," the absurd behavior of multiple networks that drive leftist narratives, or really anything other than a Qanon guy he talked to and Republican politicians.