Naomi Wolf’s reticent posture on right-wing shows frames her as an exile, not convert

Evidence

Among several such figures, my doppelganger has become particularly practiced at this maneuver. For instance, when Wolf first started appearing on right-wing media outlets in 2021, her posture was reticent, anything but defiant. She talked about having voted for Biden, stressed that she used to write for The New York Times and The Guardian and appear on MSNBC, described herself as a liberal “media darling.” But now, she said, right-wing shows like Carlson’s and Bannon’s were the only ones courageous enough to give her a platform. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 326

Categorization

• SHARE: For anyone tracking media-adjacent figures’ rhetorical pivots; the specific performance detail (reticence as strategy) is niche.