That is the essence of MAGA Plus: it's the old red-baseball-hat brigade, plus my doppelganger and all that she has come to represent. It is no exaggeration to say that Bannon has cast Wolf as a kind of mom in chief for the voting bloc he is hoping to secure: a former high-profile Democrat, a onetime-famous feminist who now wants to speak to the manager on all of their behalf.

XREF: Connects to broader analysis of how populist movements recruit former opponents as symbolic representatives to widen appeal.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 424