Yeah. I have the benefit of knowing Christian quite well. His thought experiments could lead you to think he embraces a stance he does not. He is not a populist and he does value science and expertise. He's just thinking through when it could go wrong. He's thinking of Rauch.
And he doesn't do arguing. This can be frustrating. I have yelled at him about it. Subtweeting is when he wants to continue a stream of thought but not argue about it.