President Donald TrumpThe historic comeback in the 2024 election made many political experts stupid, but one writer believes Trump’s support in a rather but rare group has brought him across the finish line. She is one of those voters.
Batya Ungar-Sargon, a columnist at Free Press and the author of “The Second Class: How Elites Betray American Men and Women”, had a viral exchange with him Bill Maherthey challenged her support for Trump in terms of “real-time” last Friday’s HBO program.
He mistakenly called her a “conservative Republican.”
“I’ve never been a Republican or a Conservative,” Ungar-Sargon told Maher. “I’m a leftist, I’m still a leftist. I’m just a magazine leftist now because-“
“That doesn’t make sense,” a confused Mach responded.
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She is confused HBO host Bill Maher after writer and columnist Batya Ungar-Sargon told him he was a “Maga leftist”. (Screen shot/HBO)
While her label is not true to Maher, it does for many others.
“Since I’ve been on Bill Maher, I’ve got thousands of people and I mean thousands of people say, ‘I’m like you. Thank you so much. This is me. This is me. These people are the ones who give President Trump victory,” Ungar-Sargon told Fox News Numbers. “Because if he had only the people who voted for Republicans in 2020 in 2016, he wouldn’t have won.
Ungar-Sargon defines “Maga Leftist” as people who identify with the “labor left” because they believe that the working class is the backbone of any society and their ability to achieve a middle-class standard of living is the defining feature of whether we will have a stable democratic state. ”
“For me, it’s ‘the rest’, and everything else is anti-war, it’s unsupported speech, you know, it’s all like the rest, now it’s Maga’s stuff.”
The independent journalist also wrote “Bad News: Wake Up the Media How to Democracy”, and he delayed her idea of “political evolution” because she said her views have not changed much. However, she does admit that she was once a serious “Trump Danger Syndrome” “wake the left.”
“In 2015, I hated him. In 2016, when he won, I stopped going to my favorite bar, Wheeler’s [in Brooklyn, New York]because everyone there voted for him, I think that was a personal betrayal,” Ungar-Sargon admitted, laughing at himself. “Like I am one of those left-handed guys. I’m really devastating, okay? I said awkwardly. Of course, now I’m back to Wheeler more often than I should. ”
Ungar-Sargon acknowledged that when President Trump first appeared in politics, she suffered from severe “Trump Danger Syndrome.” (Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
What triggered her structural shift did not completely involve Trump himself (although her pro-Trump Orthodox rabbi did help). That’s a 2018 Yale University Research This suggests that white liberals are more likely to fool their language when talking to people of color than white conservatives.
“I remember reading that I was shaken because I immediately realized it was true,” Ungar-Sargon recalls. “It was not only a prosecution of my environment, but the whole worldview I immediately realized was built on the same thing that made white liberals act in this racist way, and that’s the idea that black and Hispanics are under us, needing our help. It’s like it’s annoying. But the whole movement for progress is actually based on that idea.”
She continued: “So I remember looking at this research and it felt like I was going to lose all my friends because it was true, it was undeniable, it was prosecution for everything I thought.” “So I remember I put it in a drawer in the office. I closed the door and I said, ‘I’m not ready to deal with the consequences here. I’m not ready to admit that. I’ll be back in three months.” Three months later, I’m back and I’m like, “Well, what does this mean, like what does it mean, does it mean you’re wrong?”
“This slowly starts to change my view of President Trump because it’s so orthodox. I think everything is like I think, I think it’s obviously the basics. And then again, you have this feeling, ‘Well, if I’m wrong, if I do it wrong, what could I be wrong?”””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””’
Ungar-Sargon praised President Trump for his “genius” and called on moderates and leftists like her while maintaining support to the conservative right. （AP/Rick Bowmer）
She described the 2020 election as a “torture” and her vote was ultimately for Joe Biden.
The country is Severe special infectious pneumonia pandemicbetween everyone’s “lying” to the virus and the harm of lockdown and the “lying” to the working class by vaccine authorization, all are done by elites, which is what she continues to support what she calls the Democratic Party’s deterrent. Meanwhile, Trump is reshaping the Republican Party.
She said that he built a coalition that included biological, traditional marriage conservatives and pro-choice, pro-gay marriage left.
“Is that his genius?
“Can you imagine not only taking over the confidence of Democrats, but also destroying and rebuilding the Republican Party? [it’s rebuilt] In his image, but this is not his image. It is the image of the working class in the United States. On every question. You look at the polls and President Trump is where 65% to 90% of Americans are. He just has the confidence to say, like, this is where the voters are. I love the American people and I will represent them. That’s exactly what he did. ” she added.
Ungar-Sargon learned this book firsthand while interviewing working-class Americans.”Second lesson“Many of them praised Trump’s first term policy.
“It was a very convincing case for me to see the president as a polarizing person who only gets polarized to the elite when you leave the elite, but when you leave the elite, he is actually a very unified person who has a very unified agenda when he is a certain norm.”
“And I really respect everything he did in terms of the interests of the elite that both sides have pushed for 50 years,” she continued, and said, ‘In fact, I will accept the elite on both sides on behalf of the forgotten men and women of this great country.” “And I don’t think I can deny that this is the true story again, even though we all have told President Trump all the time.”
Batya Ungar-Sargon told Fox News Digital that she voted for President Trump for the first time in the 2024 presidential election. (Screen shot/HBO)
Throughout her political journey, Ungar-Sargon felt welcomed by the Maga movement, saying people would reach out and tell her: “I don’t agree with everything about you, but you’re welcome in this movement.”
“It’s the exact opposite of the left. Left – If you agree with 99.9% of the problem and have 0.1% disagreements on some issues, for example, ‘Yes, maybe we shouldn’t return it to the police, how to reform the police?’ How to reform the police? You’re dead for them.
“Obviously, not only is it about becoming part of a multi-ethnic alliance within Maga, I think many of the people in the movement are proud of, not just for those who are represented by all walks of life and all religions, but even those of all ideological journeys. From a slightly different perspective, it is a very enthusiastic sport for people with abortion issues. I mean, from a different perspective, President Trump and JD Vance are abortion issues, and there is no reason Republicans shouldn’t be a big tent of this beautiful diversity. ”
She voted for Trump for the first time in the 2024 election, a decision that expressed zero regrets in “real-time”.
“I mean, you must have a feeling – looking into my eyes and telling me you don’t – it’s really bad, I shouldn’t throw a lot of stuff at this team.”
She understood her and others who continued to support Trump’s “real attempts” by inviting her to return to the show by inviting her “real attempts”. She doubts that ideological disconnection may boil down to pure economics.
Batya Ungar-Sargon finally voted for President Trump in 2024 without regrets. (Joseph A. Wulfsohn/Fox News Digital; Evan Vucci/AP)
“The argument I made in both books is that for the progressive elites of the left, many of them are economical. [Maher] Specifically, but I think as a lesson, their economic interests are very out of place with the economic interests of the people Trump represents,” Ungar-Sargon said. “They have made trillions of dollars from open borders and they are able to dress their progressive economic interests as the economic interests of virtue in fact. This is wage theft from their working-class neighbors, right? Because they can hire non-legal persons, not working-class people, which will put money back in their pockets. A lot of money. ”
The columnist went on to say that the liberal elites are not strengthening the lower class and the middle class, but “raise the bar, which is poor.” And repay those who don’t work. ”
“You know, it’s kind of like an airplane, and the knowledge industry, left-wing elites, the top 10% of the majority limit of the super credits, now controls 60% of GDP, they’re first class,” Ungar-Sargon said. “What they basically say to Americans is ‘We’re happy to pay your tickets, and you can ride this plane for free as long as you stay in the coach,’ you know.’ You know.’ You don’t dare to use our bathroom. And you won’t upgrade. And you have to say where the plane is going. But as long as you’re happy to sit in the economy, you can sit there for free and you can pay for free. It’s really the best metaphor for the Democratic Party right now.”
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By contrast, she said Trump understands his supporters don’t want to ride freely and want the economy to be a “moderate version of the American Dream.”
