I think so too. Trump and Russiagate kind of scrambled him a bit. I think his unmoderated opinion is that Putin is an evil communist who's responsible for Trump, ect, ect. But, he has no time to really get emotionally invested the way MSNBC pmc libs do because he breaks his back for a living and the pain kind of sobers him to how much of a dead end being invested in the political process is. It was even more stark for him growing up in Italy, where the NATO-approved party Democrazia Cristiana ruled over a regime of naked machine-style corruption, backed up by the brute force of the local Mafia. Local people who were communists and spoke out were ostracized, he would say, while the DC bribed you for your vote. It makes for a sort of apathy towards the political process that you don't see as prevalent in America. The big inside joke in Sicily is that the government is corrupt.

Besides that, when you sell him on communist arguments, he'll ask "Ok, what do I do next then", and I don't have an answer because there really is no organized anything in this world that can challenge the power of capital.