Nothing ironic about that, Baen prides itself on publishing quality works regardless of ideology - hence why it's associated with hard-right authors and literature, because it's one of the few (and ever fewer) publishing houses that will touch them with a 10 ft pole these days instead of simply refusing them on grounds of 'reee right wing stuff icky propaganda'. When he was still alive, Jim Baen had the integrity to engage authors whose politics he didn't like in honest debate, published their works anyway if they were of actually good quality, and made lifelong friends that way.

I'm sure Sanford's followers won't be pleased to know that Eric Flint, author of the excellent 1632 books and unironic Trotskyist & union organizer (who to his credit was brave enough to walk the walk, almost getting killed by the mafia for opposing their infiltration into the Teamsters and by the Klan for trying to organize multiracial unions in Alabama back in the 60s-70s), was a personal friend of Jim Baen himself and is now defending Baen Books and bluntly calling Sanford a liar & coward.