Our guest
knows what it’s like to be a leftist darling one day and an object of scorn the next. After rebuking the left’s unwillingness to reckon with the excesses of idpol, she found herself persona non grata among Brooklyn’s podcasting class. Last week Kamala’s social media team dug up audio from one of her old podcast episodes in which JD Vance makes some mildly controversial statements, so now the vultures are combing through her accounts trying to smear him by association.Aimee and Dudley discuss how JD was once a liberal darling who could have easily spent the rest of his life coasting off his massively successful memoir, but chose not to. Is it because he was tempted by Thiel dark money and an urge to grift? Or did he betray his elite liberal peers because he recognized them for the rapacious and amoral snakes that they are?
Also discussed:
The “lEaKeD aUdIo”
- ’s “A Knife Twist for Neo-paganism” and his piece of early NRP fan art
Nick Allen’s Frontier Cities
Fen de Villiers' SC sculpture thread
Aimee’s “liberal darling” tweet
Sam Hyde’s “There is no reconciliation” tweet
NRP Radio is a weekly podcast that captures the new right zeitgeist. We discuss the week’s happenings, memes and controversies: All the Shit that’s Fit to Poast. We’re also on Spotify.
NRP Radio: Ex-liberal darling (ep. 18 with Aimee Terese)