It's 9:35 a.m. as I begin this article. In just the last hour, I've witnessed two extremes, both of them on the far left.

First, in a thread under my Facebook profile image, a random, obviously bitter left-winger wrote: "Just here to see what an inbred anti-American domestic terrorist moron looks like. It looks just like you." Yeah, I honestly laughed out loud, as did my better half. 

Second, self-declared leftist and columnist for The Free Press Batya Ungar-Sargon described herself as a "MAGA leftist" during a conversation with Fox News Digital.

Prior to talking with Fox, Ungar-Sargon, author of "Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women," appeared on last Friday's episode of HBO's "Real Time," where she got into a viral exchange with host Bill Maher, who challenged her on her support for President Donald Trump. Ungar-Sargon told Fox:

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, 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. 

Precisely. 

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Trump won decisively because untold numbers of millions of Democrats crossed party lines — including record numbers of Black and Hispanic voters — to support Trump, making him the first Republican presidential candidate to win the popular vote since incumbent George W. Bush defeated John Kerry in 2004.

Ungar-Sargon interestingly 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."

The Amazon promo of Ungar-Sargon's aforementioned book reads, in part:

A personal, journalistic ethnography of the modern American working class, based on the travels and interactions of the author through the American heartland.

"Second Class is the most important book you will read all year. A political realignment is coming, and it’s my hope that the end result will work in favor of our all-too-neglected American working class. When that realignment comes, Batya and her book will help lead the way."

—Greg Lukianoff, CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind

Who is the American working class? Do they still have a fair shot at the American Dream? What do they think about their chances to secure the hallmarks of a middle-class life?

 While writing this book, Batya Ungar-Sargon visited states across the nation to speak with members of the American working-class fighting tooth and nail to survive. [...]

In their own words, these working-class Americans explain the struggles and triumphs of their increasingly precarious lives—as well as what policies they think would improve them. [...]

America has broken its contract with its laboring class. So, how do we get back to the American Dream? How do we once again become the land of opportunity, the promised land where hard work and commitment to family are enough to protect you from poverty?

Clearly, one of the most astonishing things about Trump is he singlehandedly flipped the script on a Democrat Party that has left working-class Americans behind in favor of kowtowing to the increasingly radical left, including the insanity of DEI and the obscene belief that males can simply declare themselves to be females and as such can use women's restrooms and beat the bejesus out of females in female sporting events.

Ungar-Sargon told Fox that she was once a "woke leftist" with severe "Trump Derangement Syndrome."

In 2015, I hated him. In 2016, when he won, I stopped going to my favorite bar, Wheeler's, the local cop bar in Sheepshead Bay [in Brooklyn, New York], because everybody there had voted for him, and I felt that it was a personal betrayal. Like I was one of those lefties. I really had the derangement bad, ok? I'm embarrassed to say. Of course, now I'm back at Wheeler's more often than I should be, probably.

And as Ungar-Sargon said, she found out that she was clearly not the Lone Ranger on the left who now believes as she does. She went on to explain how and why she began to undergo a truly remarkable metamorphosis from a TDS-riddled leftist to a MAGA supporter of Trump. You can watch the video below.

‘MAGA leftist’ reveals why she now supports President Donald Trump’s agendahttps://t.co/AQqOV4QhbH

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The question that remains, and which will likely be answered over the next four years, is whether an awakening on the left will continue to grow — including after Donald Trump leaves the political stage for the final time.

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