Self-proclaimed MAGA leftist shares why Trumps support goes beyond conservatives

President Donald Trump’s historic comeback in the 2024 election has left many political pundits dumbfounded, but one writer believes Trump’s support among one sizable but little-discussed group carried him over the finish line.And she was one of those voters.Batya Ungar-Sargon, a columnist for The Free Press and author of “Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women,” had a viral exchange with Bill Maher, who challenged her on her support for Trump on last Friday’s installment of his HBO program “Real Time.” He mistakenly referred to her as a “conservative Republican.”“I was never a Republican or a conservative,” Ungar-Sargon told Maher.“I was a leftist, and I’m still a leftist.

I’m just a MAGA leftist now because-““That makes no sense,” a perplexed Maher reacted.While her label did not ring true to Maher, it did to many others. “Since I was on Bill Maher, I have gotten thousands, and I mean thousands, of messages from people saying, ‘I am just like you.Thank you so much.

That’s who I am.That’s what I am.’ And these are the people who gave President Trump his victory,” Ungar-Sargon told Fox News Digital.

“Because he wouldn’t have won if he only got people who had voted Republican in 2020, in 2016.He won because he convinced millions of people in swing states and across the country that he had their best interests at heart, many of them who had been Democrats.

And I guess that’s who I speak for.”Ungar-Sargon defines “MAGA leftist” as someone who identifies with “the labor left” in believing that the working class “is the backbone of any society, and their ability to achieve a middle-class standard of living is the defining feature of whether we will have a stable democracy or not.”“To me, that’s sort of what ‘left’ means, along with all the other stuff being anti-war, being pro-free speech, you know, this was all, like, left stuff, and now it’s MAGA stuff...