"Anna dropped her flimsy, contrarian liberalism in the mid-2010s to become 'a celebrated pundit of the New Right'-only to later discover, to her evident dismay and horror, that the New Right is a right-wing ideological movement of people with right-wing beliefs dedicated to furthering right-wing causes."
"The 'humorlessness' of the left-which is to say, certain types of people correctly regarding her as a boring moron-turned her off. She was, in her words, 'in love with the frisson of transgression.'"
"Later she discovered that the right-wingers organizing themselves since long before she was born around the idea that social progress should be reversed and rights withdrawn from certain types of people regard her as one of the types of people from whom rights should be withdrawn."
Anna, a former liberal who adopted New Right ideology in the mid-2010s, was drawn to right-wing politics primarily through attraction to transgressive humor and rebellion against what she perceived as left-wing humorlessness. She became a celebrated New Right pundit but later realized the movement's actual agenda involves restricting rights from certain groups, including potentially her own. Her disillusionment stems from discovering that the right-wing movement she joined is genuinely committed to reversing social progress and withdrawing rights from specific populations. The piece critiques her motivations as shallow and self-serving, suggesting her attraction to transgression reflects an immature impulse rather than genuine ideological conviction, and notes her current search for a new ideological scene.
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