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Essays on politics and culture from Sasha Stone's Substack. A former Democrat and Leftist who escaped the bubble to get to know the other side of the country and to take a more critical look at the left. Sashastone.substack.com

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  • Confessions of a Recovering Liberal White Woman

    Confessions of a Recovering Liberal White Woman
    Jan 14 2026
    You’ve heard of the Great Awokening and the Great Feminization. Now meet the Great Crack-Up of 2026. Grown women, Liberal white women, losing their minds and going to war on Federal officers. People are starting to notice.We haven’t seen a Great Crack-Up like this since my childhood. When those hippie chicks sat on the sidewalk - even crawled on the sidewalk - with X’s carved into their foreheads, their hair shaved off, prattling on about “the revolution.”It all seemed like a harmless fad until they found dead bodies and blood soaked walls in the Hollywood Hills and the shocking case unraveled to reveal a cult, with a leader who seemed to have hypnotized young white college girls into violence as they decoupled from society and believed the laws no longer applied to them. “I have X’d myself out of your world,” said Charlie. Then came “Four Dead in Ohio,” a shooting at Kent State a year after the Manson murders and by then, ordinary Americans had had enough. They wanted a safe country, one free from the unpredictable wildness of the revolutionaries, their cults, their uncontrollable violence — bombings, riots, murders. When would it end? With a landslide victory for Richard Nixon in 1972, followed eventually by Ronald Reagan in 1980. From Ronald to DonaldNow, like then, it’s a race to see which side is less crazy, and so far, it’s the Left by a mile because it is dominated by these crazy Liberal white women like I used to be. But they never snapped out of it like I did. To them, Trump destroyed everything - their country, their culture, their sanity, even, to some of them, their ability to parent their children.In their minds, there was no other option. Elections don’t work. They tried, they failed. This country, they believe, belongs to them and if they want to end mass deportations they have every right to do so. Who needs borders anyway? For that matter, who needs law and order? Who even needs elections?After ten years of cycling mass hysteria through their nervous systems, they’ve reached the breaking point. The Great Crack-Up of 2026.There they are, on display for all to see, once empowered women living the dream, now radicalized online, in Facebook groups, on TikTok, main-lining Rachel Maddow and are now combat ready, wild-eyed and preparing for war. It doesn’t seem to occur to them that mass deportations have been carried out by every president in the modern era. They’re going back to their own countries, not concentration camps. But does it even matter? When was the last time you heard any Democrat tell the truth? About anything? They make up their own reality and that’s why they’re losing their minds now. Nothing feels real anymore.They believe their one true purpose, because every other purpose has been taken from them, is to protect illegal immigrants from the evil white supremacists in America. It’s Patty Hearst only this time with the legacy media and an entire political party backing her up.Meanwhile, in the real world, anyone not indoctrinated by MS-Now, the New York Times and the algorithms can hear what sounds like common sense policies by the Trump administration, even though Liberal white women believe it’s nothing but lies.Here is Tricia McLaughlin, DHS Assistant Secretary, talking with Ben Shapiro (full video here)I can’t help but feel badly for these crazy women trying in vain to outrun all of that crippling self-hatred and white guilt. They’re ready now to put their lives on the line because this thing goes much deeper than politics. Trust me, I know. I was one of them. I wasn’t quite this crazy but I do know what it felt like to believe “our” country had been invaded and that a “whole of society” effort was necessary to bring down the Trump presidency and the MAGA movement. But all we were really doing was defending our status as the ruling class beating back a populist revolt. There But For The Grace of God Go I…I was the first generation to come of age after Roe V. Wade and in the wake of the 1970s feminist movement. I felt like I had an obligation to put myself first because that was now my right. Abortions would be like biological bulimia - pleasure now, get rid of the problem later. I was supposed to chase my dreams, to become something, to be someone, because being a wife and mother wasn’t enough.That was the first lie and the most damaging. The idea that babies shouldn’t matter as much as our own happiness, that they are a burden and a thing to get rid of, was in direct contradiction to who we were as women. It is to deny biological reality. Sound familiar? One lie piled atop more lies for decades. How did we ever think that would work out well for us? Instead, it has driven us slowly insane.We teach our young women to disconnect, to not care, to almost want to get pregnant just so they can have an abortion and post about it on social media. They celebrate it. They flaunt it. It wasn’t until I had a child and ...
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  • January 6th and The Real Insurrection

    January 6th and The Real Insurrection
    Jan 5 2026
    Part One | Part Two January 6th was terrifying for many Americans. After all, they saw it on television. But what did they really see? Did they know what actually unfolded that day? Did they even ask? Trump is the Jan. 6 President, proclaims the New York Times’ Editorial Board.And the text:What I learned, living through these events as a former Democrat, is that the New York Times Editorial Board is lying through its teeth. Or maybe they aren’t lying. Maybe they really do believe it. They exist inside the Doomsday Cult of the Left, after all, along with all of those high-minded “journalists” at the New Yorker and the Atlantic.But to make the bold proclamation that any protest, or even riot, against oppressive forces, whether you believe them to be oppressive or not, is un-American proves they don’t know this country or its history very well.There were two sides to this story. If I’d never left the Left, I would have believed their version of the event. I would have been just as horrified. I would have thought it was an attack on democracy. But protests are the voices of the unheard and a healthy sign of any democracy, and for a grassroots movement, and millions of Americans who had been disenfranchised by the four years Trump was in power? This was the best way for them to be heard. The only way for them to be heard.They just didn’t know they were walking into an ambush by forces far greater than them, and more powerful than any political party in American history and what they wanted to do was use that protest - a moment of desperation for desperate Americans abandoned by the government, the culture and most institutions - and demonize them further by calling them extremists, terrorists, Nazis, insurrectionists. January 6th was played on a loop by the Democrats and their propaganda machine, once known as the legacy media. And why wouldn’t it be? It was everything they needed at just the right time. See, there’s a Confederate flag. See, there’s a hangman’s rope. See, there’s some guy in horns howling inside the Capitol. Zip ties, hanging Mike Pence, Trump watching the mob, and hoping they wouldn’t stop. It all painted a picture in our minds of an angry president amidst a violent coup. In our age of algorithm-driven mass hysteria, we’re no different from the Puritans in Salem who believed in “spectral evidence,” what you can’t see but can only imagine. January 6th finally provided them with the proof they needed of their campaign against MAGA.It’s just that none of it was true. Why would Trump have wanted a riot? He’d gone to great effort to convince Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz to debate the election in the Senate. All the riot did was hand absolute power to the Democrats, Reichstag Fire style. Not only did the media sell that lie, but you’d be severely punished if you asked any questions, especially about the 2020 election. Yes, we lived through that and more. Just because the Democrats have memory-holed everything they’ve done in the last ten years to cling to power doesn’t mean it didn’t happen or that we shouldn’t talk about it. There was nothing wrong with talking about an election that was anything but free and fair. I naively went into it as a major Biden advocate, believing he could win the old-fashioned way. I didn’t know they’d hide him and Kamala Harris in the basement and let the legacy media do all of the heavy lifting. I didn’t know they’d planned it—everything that happened throughout 2020 to ensure Trump was taken out of power, like they were meddling in some third-world country’s elections. It’s all written down in TIME Magazine. They planned on saving an election that was not theirs to save. Who gave them that right? The American people decide, and if one political party believes itself to be above the people, then that is an insurrection, not against the government but against all of us and a fair process we depend on. They justified everything they did by the lies they told themselves about who Trump really was and how dangerous he was supposed to be. They rigged the election by manipulating the media, changing any law that got in their way, using COVID as an excuse to push ballot harvesting, funded by a $400 million cash infusion, and all the while pretending they were “saving democracy.”By all accounts, I should have been cheering them on. Yes, get Trump! Anything and everything should be allowed as long as we were saving the country from Hitler! I believed that at first. Why wouldn’t I? I was straight out of Central Casting as a Resistance Lib. This was the back of my car in 2012.This is who I was.Before that, I was just a lowly Oscar blogger spending my time writing about superficial things, but suddenly, in 2015, everything changed. I was in a panic about the Greenhouse Effect and the sea level rise. I threw myself into politics to help the Democrats win. Overnight, I became someone who mattered online, ...
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  • Vanity Fair and the Incurably Ugly Left

    Vanity Fair and the Incurably Ugly Left
    Dec 20 2025
    The Democrats have never been less popular than they are right now. They are suffering from many of the same problems that are causing Hollywood to collapse. They are dominated by white women and the LGBTQIA movement that looks more and more like a cult every day. Only a white woman and a gay man could have come up with the Vanity Fair photo shoot that made Susie Wiles look surprised and confused, as if to say, “What am I doing here?” JD Vance as the villain in a superhero movie, obliterating his glittering aqua eyes because those make him look too good. And depicting Marco Rubio tipping over as though all it would take is a gentle push, and down he goes.But they saved up their best for the woman the Left calls KKKaroline. Shown in extreme closeup in high resolution with every pore and every wrinkle visible, not to mention injection marks on her upper lip, they turned the beautiful and young Leavitt into the cartoon version they see in their mind’s eye. They made something beautiful into something ugly. And on TikTok, they all had a big party. These are the same women who spent many months mocking Karoline Leavitt’s smallish upper lip. On and on it went, the bullying videos on TikTok. When that failed to destroy the Press Secretary, they harassed and destroyed a running influencer named Kate Mac just for talking to Leavitt.These women and probably lots of gay men are the monsters. They’re the wicked stepsisters in Cinderella who seethe with jealousy at the pretty blonde girl who is so confident and articulate at the podium. They’re the evil queen in Snow White who can’t stand that someone out there is prettier than she. So Vanity Fair became the Magic Mirror and the Huntsman. They lie to their readers that they are the fairest of them all while they try to extinguish or destroy the object of their unending obsession. Oh, how they must have laughed and laughed as they chose these photos, knowing their readers would eat it up and lick the plate clean. The women who stab lawn signs into the ground, pretend to stand for something, and portray themselves as the “better side” were celebrating to see Leavitt humiliated in a photo. It was, for them, like winning the lottery. It scratched an itch so deep they couldn’t even tell you where it was. It felt good, that was all.The editor is this guy, seen here as the date for Princess Bea in high heels:Guiducci was present during the photo shoot, which should have been a good indication that this would not go well for them, though I would imagine he was dripping with fake niceness to make them trust him. If you know, you know. Here is Megyn Kelly:The other editor was Jen Pastore, seen here bragging about the photoshoot and now treated like a hero by the Good People of the Left.Back in 2014, the New York Times covered her wedding to Mark Hannah:Pastore was lovingly captured this way: “The bride burst into laughter at least once during the vows, showing off an impossibly wide smile that was half Anne Hathaway, half 1990s Julia Roberts.” You see, even in 2014, they had to stipulate, yeah, you know, back when Julia Roberts had not aged even a day? They couldn’t get away with that now, or maybe they could. They make the rules, after all. It is nice to be among the privileged ruling class in America, among the Good People of the Left who see their mission to spread that goodness. And if you don’t along with it, they will destroy you. Well, at least that was the plan. Trump upended it, and they’ve never figured out exactly why. Even now, they think all of us should want to live inside their puritanical, suffocating bubble of goodness. Newsflash: we don’t. The truth is that they are not a party defined by goodness so much as all-consuming hatred for the “lesser” half of the country. It buzzes behind their fake Anne Hathaway/Julia Roberts’ smile like flies buzzing around rotting meat. Their hatred is everywhere. Usually pooling and coagulating on Blue Sky, but every so often it seeps back to X, where they marshal their forces as a hate army to attack those they deem “toxic,” “dangerous,” or “disgusting.”Why did they lose to Trump a second time is a question they would never ask. Is it them? No, it couldn’t be. Everyone wants to be them. They’re the special people, the good people, the chosen people, the Woketopians that will take America into the future. I know what it feels like to see myself through their eyes, even though I was once one of them. They sent a photographer to take my picture for a New York Times profile of me at a time when they were trying to make it seem like they kind of, sort of cared about the half of the country that voted for Trump.Don’t do it, my friend warned. Send them a selfie. I should have listened to him, but, like the Trump administration, I was far too trusting. How bad could it be?Well, it was nothing less than the worst photos of me ever taken, appearing in the world's most widely read...
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