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.”
Ashley St. Clair said women are “not just turning a blind eye” to being ill-treated by the MAGA movement.
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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.”
“There were moments of free-thinking that I had, but you’re so wrapped up in it, and your whole identity is this, “ St. Clair said.
Later in the episode, she called the MAGA movement a “cult.”
“It is a cult, and what you have to understand is, in any abusive relationship, right?” she said. “Your access to other people, you’re very isolated.”
Now, St. Clair said, “there’s no way that you can watch what’s happening and not say something,” citing the actions of ICE and “so egregious” attacks on free speech under President Donald Trump.
St. Clair went on to slam some of the women in the White House, who she said “hold a degree of psychopathy” and can’t be convinced to leave MAGA.
“Obviously, at times I’ve lacked empathy … being in politics and the things I’ve said, but the women within the White House really scare me, to be honest,” St. Clair quipped.