Progressive journalist unleashes liberal bigotry that drove her away from the Dem Party

The Young Turks co-host Ana Kasparian explained what led her to leave the Democratic Party on Jillian Michaels’ “Keeping It Real” podcast on Monday.

The progressive media host described feeling “politically homeless” in recent years, as she began to see an intolerance toward debate and the free exchange of ideas, as well as an embrace of soft-on-crime policies by the left, which she believed that these were harmful. to society.

She blasted attempts to “demonize and even dehumanize the other side,” while admitting she was someone 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 berated by liberals after admitting she was afraid to leave her home after being sexually assaulted by a homeless man while walking her dog in Los Angeles in 2022.

“The next thing I knew, I was getting these messages, and it’s really harsh stuff, about how, ‘You’re painting a picture of the homeless community.’ How can you be like that? These are your unhoused neighbors and they need help,” she said of the negative messages she received.

“A few people accused me of being racist, even though I never revealed the race of the people who did this to me. And in fact they were white,” Kasparian continued.

“That woke me up,” Kasparian said. “Some of the people I associated myself with because I thought they were the good people…They definitely have stereotypes in their heads and are completely blind to the fact that they have those stereotypes and accuse 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.

“Last year, the other thing that really struck me was the difference between my upbringing and what the Democratic Party espouses,” Kasparian said.

She described being raised by “very tough” 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 younger people face that older generations may not have faced, she still sees America as a land of opportunity, which she said runs counter to the Democratic Party’s messaging.

“But 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 do,” she said.

“They keep using this message that infantilizes them and it seems like, you know, if we, the white saviors, hadn’t been messing around with these laws and policies, they would never have been able to survive. And I find that so dirty,” she continued.

Kasparian gave examples of how a Los Angeles school district eliminated its honor student program because there were not enough Spanish-speaking students enrolled in the program.

“That turned me off,” Kasparian said. “It’s taking away an opportunity rather than seeing what the flaws are in our education system and then taking the opportunity to help these students, where we see the inequality, to get to where we want them to be. That’s the right way to approach it. But there’s just this strange, defeatist mentality. And honestly, I’m also really tired of white people walking around taking offense on behalf of marginalized people.”

“They’re just virtue signals. It’s disgusting,” Michaels agreed.

“We need to celebrate people who want to improve themselves and their lives,” Kasparian later said in a discussion about the far left’s fat acceptance movement.

“Instead, there’s an attempt to tell people, ‘You’re fine the way you are, you don’t need to change anything,’ even if that thing is slowly killing you. “It doesn’t make any sense,” she continued.

The pair also said they’ve seen their home state of California go “crazy” over time since they grew up.

Michaels, who left California in 2021, has previously opened up about how the deep blue state’s soft-on-crime policies pushed her and her family to leave and move to Miami.

“Nothing was that crazy, right?” Michaels told Kasparian. “Homelessness, crime, advocating medicalization of children, advocating late-term abortion?”

Gov. Gavin Newsom is leading the “madness” in the state, Michaels said. “The concern is that it’s going from California to a federal problem.”

“Unfortunately, some of the failed policies 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.