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"which side of any issue you are on"

Maybe he's on everybody's side. What freedom is more important than the freedom to be true to one's self? What good is free speech[1] when the private, individual exercise thereof results in the professional equivalent of capital punishment?

[1] Whether campaign contributions are always identical to speech in all contexts is immaterial here: in this case, they're close enough.

Sure, he could be on everyone's side and trying to clarify the issue. If so, he's doing a rather poor job.

However, it seemed rather obvious that he had an intention to take some sort of stance on an issue, something he also failed at.

Pretending to be on one side while implicitly supporting the other. Fairly common line of thinking amongst self-proclaimed moderates who try to hide, or wont acknowledge their own reactionary politics.

He must be talking about Eich, since he was clearly supporting the group of bullies who were so flagrant and pernicious that they'd even pass a law to prevent grown consenting adults from having meaningful relationships with each other.