Useful idiots for dummies

Created
Mon, 13/03/2023 - 05:00
Updated
Mon, 13/03/2023 - 05:00
This is so ridiculous I’m reluctant to even comment. But the sad fact is that there really is a convergence of some on the left and right, particularly on the issue of Russia and it’s starting to bleed into other areas. Sigh: When they take the microphones behind a DJ booth at the New York Young Republican Club party, Dasha Nekrasova and Anna Khachiyan have a less-than-captive audience. The event’s headliner, longtime Republican operative Roger Stone, has just finished speaking and is on his way to the bar to make martinis, setting off a small stampede of young conservatives. Nekrasova and Khachiyan, co-hosts of the podcast Red Scare, address the remaining crowd. “Hey, we’re all Republicans here,” Nekrasova says. “I’m a Democrat now,” Khachiyan deadpans. “Yeah, we’re actually Democrats.” “After tonight, I changed my mind. I am registering as a Democrat. It’s over for you hoes, I am slamming that button for Joe Brandon.” Have the hosts of Red Scare—once a left-ish podcast that backed Bernie Sanders—become Republicans or is this just another ironic stunt that happens to benefit the right? The distinction is barely worth parsing anymore. They’re here on a Friday night as “special guests” at a $140-a-ticket party for a Republican club whose leaders are eager to recruit from a larger pool than the shallow puddle of young conservatives in this liberal city. “I’m here for the Red Scare girls,” says one man who earnestly describes his politics to me as “far right.” Khachiyan suggests the event is…