In 2016, when Donald Trump was first running for president, Batya Ungar-Sargon was a Hillary Clinton supporter. In 2020, she voted for Joe Biden, “albeit reluctantly.” She is a journalist who lives in New York City and has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. In other words, she checks all the boxes for the stereotypical “coastal elite.”

But Ungar-Sargon is now at the forefront of Democrats cheering on the Trump administration and, as a columnist for The Free Press and the host of a new show on the cable network NewsNation, she’s happy to call herself a “ MAGA lefty .”

How did she get from there to here?

Writing for The Free Press, Ungar-Sargon said her transformation began when her rabbi, “the best person I know,” mentioned that he loved Trump, and she had to conf

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