Influencer Ashley St. Clair, who made headlines following her messy custody battle with tech billionaire Elon Musk, is speaking out about why she left MAGA, pointing to its treatment of women among other issues.
“I will tell you, the right has a big issue with what’s festering underneath in terms of the sentiment against women,” St. Clair told Tim Miller on The Bulwark Podcast on Tuesday. “There are a lot of women from the right who still keep in communication with me, and they see what’s happening, and especially as it relates to the rhetoric against women, on the right, they’re not just turning a blind eye to this.”
She added that “it’s going to impact” Republicans, “whether in the midterms or 2028″ that women are “waking up to the fact that they’ve also been had, that they’ve been used as pawns within this fringe movement.”
The ex-MAGA personality told Miller she got into the movement while she was a young college student after other right-wing influencers began sharing her “shitposting” online.
For St. Clair, there “was this sense of belonging” being part of the MAGA movement, and she eventually dropped out of college. Looking back, she “regrets” repeating Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s “talking points that people shouldn’t go to school.”
