If Naomi Wolf was Bannon's go-to guest not just to rail against vaccine mandates but now to live-spin Trump's speeches, that meant she had crossed an entirely new threshold, becoming a full-blown player in this world. Shortly after, Wolf would go so far as to join Trump's class-action lawsuit against Twitter as a co-plaintiff, challenging her own ouster from the platform (though she still claimed to "profoundly" disagree with Trump "ideologically"). It was there, on the side of that road, that I became convinced that whatever was happening with her wasn't just relevant to me because of my admittedly niche doppelganger problem—it was far more serious than that. If someone like her could be shifting alliances so radically, it seemed worth trying to figure out what was driving that transformation—especially because, by then, it was also clear that quite a few prominent liberals and leftists were making a similar "post-left" lurch to the hard right.

QUESTION: What specifically drives this 'post-left' lurch to the hard right among prominent figures like Naomi Wolf? SEED: Could explore the broader pattern of liberal intellectuals migrating to right-wing politics and the mechanisms behind it.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 316