“The Young Turks” co-host Ana Kasparian explained what led her to abandon the Democratic Party while on Jillian Michaels’ “Keeping It Real” podcast on Monday.
The progressive media host described feeling “politically clean” in recent years after she began to see an intolerance for debate and the free exchange of ideas, as well as an embrace of soft-on-crime policies from the left that she believed were harmful. to society.
She blasted attempts to “demonize and even dehumanize the other side” while admitting that she used to be a person who believed you couldn’t be friends with conservatives or someone who supported former President Trump.
Both women said they identified with disaffected Democrats who now feel unwelcome in their former party.
Kasparian said a turning point for her was when she was reprimanded by liberals after she confessed she was afraid to leave her home after being sexually assaulted by a homeless man while walking her dog in Los Angeles in 2022.
“Before I knew it, I started getting these messages, and it’s really, really harsh stuff, like, ‘You’re taking a picture of the homeless community. How can you be like this? These are your homeless neighbors and they need help,’” she said of the negative messages she received.
“Some people accused me of being a racist, even though I had never discovered the race of the individuals who did this to me. And in fact they were white,” continued Kasparian.
“That woke me up,” Kasparian said. “Some of the people I associated myself with because I thought they were the good people… They obviously have stereotypes in their heads and are completely blind to the fact that they have those stereotypes and go around accusing others of being bad actors. when they themselves have to do the work”.
Kasparian said she also disagreed with the “defeatist mentality” shown toward minorities.
“At some point last year, the other thing that really hit me was the difference between my upbringing and what the Democratic Party stands for,” Kasparian said.
She described being raised by “very strict” parents who taught her to work hard to be self-sufficient and create her own opportunities.
While she acknowledged that there are obstacles today that some young people are facing that older generations may not have had to face, she still sees America as a place of opportunity, which she said is at odds with messages from the Democratic Party.
“However, we all wake up in the morning and make choices for ourselves. And when I hear the Democratic Party constantly disempowering people of color, because that’s what they’re doing,” she said.
“They keep using this message that infantilizes them and makes them look like, you know, if it wasn’t for us White saviors messing around with these laws and policies, they would never be able to survive. And I find it so heavy,” she continued.
Kasparian gave examples of how a Los Angeles school district canceled its honor student program because there were not enough Hispanic students enrolled in the program.
“It threw me off,” Kasparian said. “It’s taking away an opportunity instead of looking at what the flaws are in our education system and then rising to the occasion to help these students, where we see the disparity, get to where we want them to be.” This is the right way to approach it. But there’s just this weird defeatist mentality. And frankly, I’m so sick of white people going around taking offense on behalf of marginalized people.”
“They’re just virtue signalers. It’s disgusting,” Michaels agreed.
“We should praise people who want to improve themselves and their lives,” Kasparian later said in a discussion about the “fat acceptance” movement on the far left.
“Instead, there’s this effort to tell people, ‘You’re fine the way you are, you don’t need to change a thing, even if it’s slowly killing you. It doesn’t make sense,” she continued.
The pair also said they’ve watched their home state of California get “crazy” over time since they were growing up.
Michaels, who left California in 2021, has previously shared how the deep blue state’s soft-on-crime policies prompted her and her family to leave and move to Miami.
“Nothing was as crazy as this was it?” Michaels told Kasparian. “Homelessness, crime, child drug advocacy, late-term abortion advocacy?”
Gov. Gavin Newsom is leading the “madness” in the state, Michaels said. “The concern is that it goes from California to a federal problem.”
“Unfortunately, some of the failed policies that we started here have been exported to other states,” Kasparian agreed.
Fox News Digital reached out to Newsom’s office for comment, but did not immediately hear back.
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