Radical Leftist. Nick Confessore has never been outside the Progressive Leftist bubble in his adult life. He took political science at Princeton (Leftist), then worked variously at MSNBC, The Atlantic, Salon, The Boston Globe, et al. He's just another chowderheaded East Coast elitist radical Leftist.
For instance, Confessore brings up this statement by Carleson as if to say it's somehow racist:
Well, that's a true statement. Illegals leave tons upon tons of litter, trash, human waste, and other detritus all while trashing the land they cross getting into the US.
Saying something that's factual and accurate doesn't make you a racist. Confessore's op ed is littered with such inuendo and half-truths posing as supposed fact. For Confessore, Carleson simply saying something negative about some group or ethnicity that is favored by the Left is racist. Confessore is just another full-of-shit, not-so-bright radical Leftist writing a column at a Leftist newspaper for Leftist consumption. The other 80+% of the population will ignore it, just like they always do.