In the Trump era, many young women were attracted to the New Right because it felt less constrained, stuffy, and dogmatic than the left. Perhaps it was. A little sexism was a small price to pay for entry to a party without Woke-scolds policing the playlist. For women especially, contempt for feminist pieties, if deftly channeled, could be one’s ticket to stardom. Now, a growing group of right-wing women — both prominent personalities and loyal foot soldiers — are waking up to find that their inclusion in the MAGA movement was contingent: Sexism wasn’t merely the price of entry; it was the theme of the party. According to the conservative women @SamAdlerBell has spoken to over the past several months — all at one point active in MAGA, some active still — anxiety and disgust over sexism has been steadily growing since the beginning of Trump’s second term. It’s spiked since last fall, they say, when the movement began openly embracing Nick Fuentes, whose visceral hatred of women makes the male chauvinists of the past seem enlightened. “These men have made it very, very clear that they will ‘rape, kill, and die’ for Nick Fuentes,” Anna, who wrote for popular right-wing outlets, says. MAGA is “insisting that women subject themselves entirely to male authority, while advertising that male authority will be cruel and vicious and fickle.” Some of the right-wing women Adler-Bell spoke to feel a certain amount of regret over her complicity. “​​Shame and guilt and just embarrassment,” Anna says, “Just like how could I tolerate this and participate in this?” Adler-Bell reports on the women defecting from the New Right over its sexism: