Same here. I have followed his career when he started with Growing Pains. When he did “What’s been eating Gilbert Grape?” his performance was just so magnificent. For being a young kid he knocked it out of the ballpark. I then knew Leo was someone to watch. Now on his politics, that is separate. His father is a full fledge liberal whose friends happen to be Allen Ginsberg. I recall an article that Leo did an interview. The reporter asked Leo about Allen Ginsberg, Leo responds...”I don’t want to talk about him can we go on to the next”. I can only speculate why Leo made that statement.
Well, Ginsberg was known to favor adolescent boys as his preferred sexual partners, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he couldn’t resist trying something on a young Leo.