I never used to think myself a political. The item of prominent Northeastern schools and perspective, lauded for childhood accomplishments, I perhaps match the historical mold of an elitist more than anything else. I was born an intuitive Republican/libertarian, nevertheless, and the more I was exposed to the Marxist left (especially as an undergraduate at Columbia U), the harder I turned correctly. But like most of you reading this, I was slowly disillusioned by the formation Republican party.
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Like many of you, I began to feel socially poor. No, I didn’t need a” next way” — a mid-point between the DNC and the GOP. I wanted the whole nasty building to make means for common-sense, really good, law-respecting, nationalistic policies. I knew something was off when far-left bohemian friends and I began agreeing on a amazing number of issues. We joked that we had both gone so far to the left or right that we had come around the entire group and met on the other side. The formation was our frequent enemy.
Trumpism, MAGA, call it what you will — a strongly Americanist form of democracy — fits the bill for a amazing number of us anti-establishment insurgents on the right and the left. Donald Trump is the strong figure who brought it to keep in the United States, and no remarkably, he is a polarizing threat. But conversions are generally gratifying to see, and then there’s a fresh communist Trumpist making ripples on the talkshow field.
I had never heard of Batya Ungar-Sargon until quite late when videos of her straight-up spitting common feeling and political and economic reality began populating my feeds. I was girl-crushed soon.
” Journalist and artist Batya Ungar-Sargon admits that she once succumbed to TDS—Trump Derangement Syndrome—and also stopped going to her native pub in 2016 because people that voted for Trump”, writes my partner over at RedState, Bob Hoge. ” But then, she’s had a change and describes herself as a’ MAGA righty.'”
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” People often ask how I identify politically”, Ungar-Sargon wrote in an X blog next month. ” I am a MAGA Lefty. Trump’s pro-worker, anti-war, politically moderate America First plan was the Democrats ‘ program for a decade. Then it’s MAGA. I’m deeply humbled by everyone who reached up to reveal that this resonated with them”. In the article, she featured a picture of herself explaining her place to Bill Maher. It was the first day I ever heard of her, and I watched every minute of the almost three-minute picture.
People often ask how I identify diplomatically. I am a MAGA Lefty. Trump’s pro-worker, anti-war, politically moderate America First plan was the Democrats ‘ system for a decade. Then it’s MAGA. I’m greatly humbled by everyone who reached out to reveal that this resonated with them. photograph. twitter.com/mhwQViidg9— Batya Ungar-Sargon ( @bungarsargon ) March 17, 2025
It’s true that Ungar-Sargon is a left and, like my bohemian friends, she holds fast to her left-leaning rules, as I do my traditional versions. But she has a personable, viral quality when she speaks, and though I’ve only just heard of her, she’s now pulled me out into new intellectual place and opened my eyes to even more swathes of common ground with our pro-Trump friends on the left.
This cheerful, brilliant woman went on” Piers Morgan Uncensored” earlier this week and explained Trump’s Liberation Day tariff regime within the framework of class warfare — and it’s not the traditional Marxist-narrative class warfare of the haves vs. the have-nots that you’re used to. It’s the true communist version, where the elites decimate the middle class and force them into serfdom along with the already entrapped poor. It’s the opposite of the American dream, where everything is possible no matter who you are or where you come from. And in pointing all this out, Ungar-Sargon brilliantly details the normal-people union between left and right that is MAGA.
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I’ll post the video at the end of this article because I recommend you watch the whole thing. Meanwhile, here is Ms. Ungar-Sargon’s preamble to her fascinating remarks to her fellows on the panel, some pro-Trump and some real haters:
What I find so frustrating about the conversation around tariffs is that we all agree on the problem. We all agree that the de-industrialization of America led to the downward mobility of the American working class, deaths of despair, people working multiple jobs and not being able to afford the American dream. We all agree that it is deeply unfair for the American middle class to be bearing the burden of unfair tariffs from other countries. We all agree that it is great for the President to have leverage in order to demand reasonable things, like that country stop allowing fentanyl to murder 100, 000 Americans every year, and that Mexico do its part to police its own border. And yet, when somebody has the courage to show up and say to Wall Street,” Screw you. I am waging war. I’m waging class warfare on behalf of the American working class, and you elites on Wall Street, you do what you need to do, because I’m not going to stop fighting for the American working class”. Suddenly, everybody is sitting around going,” Oh no, the stock market”! Yeah, the stock market looks like that because the rich are punishing Trump for siding with the neglected and humiliated American working class over them.
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Perhaps there is room for Ungar-Sargon in the Trump administration. She certainly wouldn’t be the first leftist he brought aboard the Trump Train.  ,
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We pause here to once again marvel at how a coarse, vulgar builder from Queens who also happens to be an international playboy billionaire while somehow also a successful father of remarkable children has turned out to be a true uniter and an unstoppable upender of our entrenched masterclass.
Trumpism, populism, anti-establishmentism, libertarianism — or maybe it’s just the good, old-fashioned spirit of American liberty and opportunity.
Welcome to MAGA, Ms. Ungar-Sargon. You wear it well!
Here’s the truth about tariffs: For 60 years they destroyed the American working class to funnel money upwards into the pockets of the rich. Donald Trump is the first president in generations to tell Wall Street to screw itself—he’s for the working men and women of this country. pic. twitter.com/sCZRFeITYh— Batya Ungar-Sargon ( @bungarsargon ) April 3, 2025
