I know Batya from seeing her being interviewed on Sky New’s “Lefties Losing It.” She is a brilliant commentator. The video in this post is an excerpt of an interview featuring her on the Bill Maher show. Batya claims to be a MAGA leftist. I would have never guessed she was a leftist.
In the process of the interview, the question of tariffs came up and she provided an clear definition of how Trump is going to use tariffs to rebuild our middle class.
Title of video at YouTube: She said this on Bill Maher Show – Truth Shocked – Batya Ungar-Sargon’s Knows TARIFFS
From the YouTube site, Sistema Strong, linked below:
Mar 16, 2025
Bill Maher gets caught off guard by Batya Ungar-Sargon’s answer about the Trump tariffs.
Sistema Strong Video-page link: https://www.youtube.com/@sistema.strong/videos
Batya Ungar-Sargon partial bio from Wikipedia:
Batya Ungar-Sargon is an American journalist and author. Ungar-Sargon is the deputy opinion editor of Newsweek[1] and the former opinion editor of The Forward.[2][3] She is the author of two books, the most recent of which is Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women, which discusses the challenges faced by the American working class and the gap between them and the elite class.
Education
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Ungar-Sargon attended high school in Israel.[4] She is of Jewish descent.[5] She holds a 2004 bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago (AB) in English and completed her PhD in 2013 at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation, entitled Coercive Pleasures: The Force and Form of the Novel 1719-1740, addresses, among other elements, how rape and colonialism figure in the pleasures of modern English fiction.[6]