Yeah, this. Unlike most big-name SF authors – Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula LeGuin, Isaac Asimov etc. – whose politics and beliefs remained more or less the same throughout their careers, Heinlein went all over the place. Like you say, he started off as believing in Social Credit, shifted to a more conservative direction, took a sharp swerve towards right around the time he married Ginny, then spent the rest of his career getting more and more libertarian in increasingly weird ways.
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