The New Witch Hunt | The American Spectator

When witches go about seeking prey, rather than when torch-bearing peasants are after them, is it still a “witch hunt”? This is the latest paradox served up to us from a victim class ever on the prowl for fresh meat. If you feel the world has mangled your precious feelings, it’s time to even it up! Oppressors lurk among the righteous in pews. Ye shall know them by the decibel level of their Amen’s!

Like Bill O’Reilly, Huffpost is looking out for you. On April 6, 2026 they were on the lookout for those confounded crypto-conservatives. Lucky for us, Ajani Bazile of Buzzfeed was on it with “People Are Sharing the Subtle Signs a Woman Is Secretly Right Wing, and They’re Painfully Specific.” Adrift in perpetual vagary, nothing smarts like specifics.

BuzzFeed decided there were too dang many UPOs (unidentified political objects) mingling unharmed among the comrades. So, “We recently asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to share subtle signs that a woman is right wing.”

Poor Felix Drerzhinsky and Lavrenti Beria never lived to see it. The Western proletariat is now on board. They’ve learned sneaky Cheka tricks to pry out or fabricate the concealed thoughts of their neighbors. Bazile’s next piece will doubtless inform us on how, after ginning up arbitrary conclusions about acquaintances, fans can proceed to use the dope doing them harm. When the people who swear by hating hate, hate people this much, they’ve out-treacherized Uncle Joe himself.

And now, without further ado, how the brain trust gets its woman:

“Women who are conservative tend to be cagey about answering how they voted, or say they are ‘not very political’ and feign being moderate.”

Reversing the Clinton gay policy, go ahead and ask, if they don’t tell, you know.

“If a woman doesn’t like the Barbie movie or Taylor Swift, ask why. Usually, that will give you your answer. It’s OK to have different tastes, but if the reason you don’t like them is specifically that they are overtly feminist or for women and girls, then we have a problem.”

If you’re not sure what that one means, look next on the list.

“Sometimes a sign is if she says she loves ‘masculine men.’”

Should they prefer a guy who is thinking of Jude Law when things are getting hot and heavy?

“One indicator is what’s on her dating profile. If she lists her religion but not political views, or makes an apathetic ‘not political’ nonsense claim, that’s usually a sign.”

In the sacred tradition of Felix, Lavrenti, and Joe, that old-time religion is the bud in need of a nipping.

‘A sign a woman is right-wing is when you joke about or even just mention some current internet claim about a falsity propounded by hardline far-righters, and she goes quiet or says, “I don’t want to talk about that now.” Evading a potentially unpleasant conversation to keep fake social propriety is a society-supported female role, and she might not want to shift the current balance to defend far-right opinions and escalate.

How big a dose of BuzzFeed is necessary to wonder what their users could mean by “falsity”? It is not uncommon to avoid contradicting a left-wankers conviction even when it is debunked by sources like the New York Times or the Los Angeles Times. What’s to be gained? BuzzFeeders grip canards with the rage of Elmer Fudd throttling Daffy Duck. Can you only trust the ladies who dive in tooth and claw, because … dodging barroom brawls out of decorum is anti-feminist?

“An indicator is if they have strong feelings of support for Johnny Depp during and after the Amber Heard trial.”

Another possibility is that they actually followed the trial and the facts presented … like the jury did awarding Depp $15 million.

“Women who put ‘moderate’ on their dating profiles are a red flag. I think anyone who labels themselves moderate in these times is doing that because they’re aware of how being a conservative can be perceived these days.”

Now you know, the ones listing their politics as “bloodthirsty” are safe and reliable.

“One clue is if she says she’s independent and won’t tell you who she voted for.”

If politics is a deal breaker, why not just find your dream girl at the next riot?

And finally, “You can tell a woman is far-right by the way she treats staff. In retail stores and restaurants, women like that just have an air of superiority, like the staff is less than human, only made for serving them.”

That’s interesting, so all those people on YouTube videos plundering retail and wreaking havoc in eateries are Republican? You coulda’ fooled me — and the lore of restaurant employees of Washington, DC. They nearly all say Republicans tip better than Democrats. Jerks, of course, are not uncommon in any species of politician. But the mere idea of doing all this sniffing and rooting out “suspect” people in a person’s orbit reveals what’s important. This kind of totalitarian behaviorist is the first to demand a manager if the smile wasn’t right or their server was in the weeds.

There’s a lot of silly stuff out there in the cyber-verse. It might come from Alex Jones, Jeff Rense, Joy Reid, or Amanda Marcotte. HuffPost has placed itself firmly in the same wacko-sphere occupied by Infowars and Salon with crank bait like this. It’s one of those accidental classics of hand tipping. The holders think it’s a winner without a clue how lame it really is.

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