He doesn't fight for the Right. He fights for what's right.
Exactly!
I believe one of his oft-repeated lines on air is "This is not about Right vs. Left, but Right vs. WRONG." Unlike the "cheering section", aka Sean & Mark, he doesn't much care a wit about the politics of someone. If they should be denigrated, he'll denigrate. If they should be praised, he'll praise.
Would that others on both sides had the same capacity.
“He doesn’t give much of a crap about Right vs. Left ideology.”
Ideologies are collections of ideas ... our patterns of Governance are built on them ... not ‘giving a crap’ about it in politics is like a rocket scientist not ‘giving a crap’ about Gravity.
Its nonsense.
One has to conclude that he either has a simplistic world-view himself or pawns off that nonsense to his listeners as a way of keeping things simple for them.
“He sees things that are wrong, states them in plain terms and is working to get average folks off their asses to FIGHT for the country of our fathers.” - Duh, that *IS* an ideology, once you peel back the ‘what is wrong’ stuff ... and if you havent been living in a cave lately you’d know that only the right-wing is fighting for ‘the country of our fathers’. And his attacks on ‘progressives’ clearly marks him conservative in the conservative v progressive line.
In short, Beck hasnt self-labelled his ideology because he hasnt thought it through clearly *OR* because it would hurt his show if he self-admitted to where he’s coming from.