He's got a reputation as a hard-core, anti-gun leftie. At the same time, he gets the idea of government confiscation of personal wealth (taxes), and anyone who has read The Stand can't help but get the sense that he knows something about the Bible. Not the grace of God necessarily, but the Bible.
Definitely a man of many contradictions.
The thing about the stand was that the villain, Flagg, was part of the '60s counter-culture while the heroine was a black, female religious Republican and Reagan voter.