Prominent leftists began shifting alliances toward the hard right during Covid

Evidence

If Naomi Wolf was Bannon’s go-to guest not just to rail against vaccine mandates but now to live-spin Trump’s speeches, that meant she had crossed an entirely new threshold, becoming a full-blown player in this world. Shortly after, Wolf would go so far as to join Trump’s class-action lawsuit against Twitter as a co-plaintiff, challenging her own ouster from the platform (though she still claimed to “profoundly” disagree with Trump “ideologically”). It was there, on the side of that road, that I became convinced that whatever was happening with her wasn’t just relevant to me because of my admittedly niche doppelganger problem—it was far more serious than that. If someone like her could be shifting alliances so radically, it seemed worth trying to figure out what was driving that transformation—especially because, by then, it was also clear that quite a few prominent liberals and leftists were making a similar “post-left” lurch to the hard right. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 316

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the ‘post-left lurch’ as the empirical phenomenon Klein’s diagonalism analysis is built on.
• SEED: Could fuel an article angle on left-to-right ideological migration during Covid as a distinct phenomenon from classical shifting.
• XREF: connects to: COVID-19’s shared mortal threat deepened rather than healed American polarization — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 126