How would you characterize Attila the Hun's politics?

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Such is the world we live in, that if I now google "Attila", the German Corona sceptic and right wing extremist Attila Hildmann actually comes above Attila the Hun.

That doesn't strictly speaking answer the question. But I feel it is a pretty depressing inditement of the year 2021 that the most famous Attila is no longer one of the key figures in the destruction of the Roman empire, but a vegan cook who hates masks and jews.

In the same way that the name "Sargon of Akkad" is now associated with a YouTube far right celeb.

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Fwiw Attila did align with the Bagaudae (landless peasants turned into 'revolutionary' brigands against the nobility) when necessary, so you could imagine seeing him as a great leveller from the relatively egalitarian world of the steppe. Would be definitely a stretch though; the Hunnic empire was essentially a parasitic force that extracted the surplus from the Romans and Germans alike, and not for egalitarian goals.