@servelan of course he does.
He's a hack.
He's a guy who used to be legit, used to provide reasonable advice, but in the years since he just says whatever the political winds advantage him to say, no matter how outlandish and nonsensical.
We really need to call Robert Reich out for this kind of thing these days. I really wish he had stuck to legitimate policy analysis, but he left that track long ago.
Now he just sprouts nonsense get attention, I guess.