Brett Cooper Confronts the Left's Resurgence While Conservatives Fracture Into Echo Chambers
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Brett Cooper Confronts the Left's Resurgence While Conservatives Fracture Into Echo Chambers
Brett Cooper addresses the uncomfortable reality facing conservatives: while the right splinters into infighting and X becomes an echo chamber, the left has unified with shocking energy ahead of the midterms. From massive No Kings protests in Boston to Handmaid's Tale cosplayers in Nashville, Cooper documents how Democrats have transformed from the fractured post-Kamala coalition into a mobilized force. Yet she makes clear that criticizing her own side doesn't mean joining theirs, a side that celebrates violence, rejects biology, and wants to sterilize children. Cooper finds herself in an awkward middle ground, raised with libertarian values but watching both parties fail to deliver real change. She challenges Republican leaders directly: give voters something to fight for, not just against, because apathy isn't an option when the alternative is this extreme.
After covering the Trump administration extensively, Brett Cooper noticed a pattern in the comments—particularly on TikTok—suggesting she was moving left. She wants to set the record straight: criticizing her own side doesn't mean she's joining the opposition. The alternative, as she sees it, is violent, deranged insanity that rejects biology, wants to sterilize children, and celebrates when people like her get shot.
Cooper points to an important reality: Trump currently has his lowest approval rating of his second term, but that doesn't mean everyone who voted for him suddenly loves Democrats. She cites Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger as evidence—despite campaigning as a moderate who would stand against both the left and right, Spanberger now holds the lowest approval rating 80 days into her term of any Virginia governor in the 21st century.
The situation, Cooper says, is best described by the Dwight and Angela meme from The Office—where Dwight stands there and Angela comes up behind him and scares him. That's her relationship with Democrats: they genuinely scare her, and criticizing Republicans doesn't change that.
X Has Become a Right-Wing Echo Chamber
A viral tweet from Nate Silver highlighted how the platform X has become dominated by right-wing voices since Elon Musk's purchase. Silver's graphic showed the accounts with the most engagement in 2025, featuring massive red bubbles for Elon Musk, Eric, Gunther Eagleman, Libs of TikTok, Cat Turd, Laura Loomer, Benny Johnson, and others, while Democratic accounts appeared as much smaller blue bubbles.
While there's disagreement in the comments about whether Silver's numbers are entirely accurate—some arguing that Obama, AOC, and Bernie Sanders should have larger representations—the overarching point stands: X has become right-wing dominated. Cooper didn't need a graphic to tell her this; she experiences it daily. She used to log onto Twitter and see a mix of progressives and conservatives battling it out. Now it's the same people every day arguing over the same topics—one day it's Tucker, then Megyn Kelly, then Candace, then Aaron.
To see what the left was doing, Cooper downloaded Bluesky a few months ago. What she found was similarly boring, repetitive, and irrelevant, with barely any engagement. It's a massive echo chamber where the biggest drama involves accidentally offending disabled people. One viral interaction showed someone saying "audio books count as reading," another responding "yes, but read also," and the original poster replying: "Hey friendo, some people can't read. I don't think you meant to be ableist, but that's how your statement comes off." Another exchange featured someone asking if fascists exercised today, with the response claiming that regimented exercise is fundamentally fascist itself.
The Left Has Unified While the Right Fractures
Cooper's main point is that this echo chamber has inoculated the right, creating a net negative heading into the midterms. Everyone's focus is on each other instead of the group they're supposed to be united against—a group that actively hates them and spends all day talking about how much they hate them. More importantly, many people on the right have no idea what the left is actually up to, and that should scare them because a lot has changed in the last 12 months.
Ten months ago, Cooper was making fun of the 2025 No Kings protests, calling them wimpy and geriatric—which they were. But within those 10 months, they got their act together. The most recent No Kings protest six days prior in Boston featured massive, energized crowds chanting in unison. The crowds looked similar in New York City, Washington DC, and San Francisco.
But it wasn't just the usual liberal cities. Boise, Idaho had huge demonstrations. Tennessee had Handmaid's Tale cosplayers marching through Nashville. Cooper notes the consistency—when the weather gets warmer, left-wing women pull out their red capes, get on Google, look for a protest to attend, and can't wait to pull out their DIY signs to cosplay The Handmaid's Tale. It doesn't matter what the protest is about or where it is—there will be a not very attractive woman in a Handmaid's Tale outfit.
The point is that these people are unified. The left is energized and ramped up for the midterms, even if they don't really know what they're supporting or fighting against. When a young protester was asked why she was there, she responded: "To protest and get a make a better democracy. We get to make a statement and they just silence us and they don't get to do that." Cooper was about to criticize the parents for dragging their 13-year-old daughter to a protest without telling her what they're protesting, but realized the parents don't know themselves. It's chaos 24/7. All they know is they hate Republicans and the orange man, and they're willing to come together over hatred of whatever the current thing is.
The Nightmare Blunt Rotation
Love it or hate it, Cooper argues, it's a winning strategy because they're coming together in numbers while the right becomes more fractured by the day. And they're not just going to show up in November—they're going to show up looking like something out of a low-budget Marvel villain casting call.
One protester in Atlanta drew particular attention—a woman in a wheelchair wearing a Trump mask with fake breasts exposed, being walked on a leash. Someone commented: "I'm watching this no kings protest in Atlanta against President Trump and his administration right now, and I genuinely can't tell if this is a protest or the villain casting call for a low-budget Marvel movie. Are these Democrats, liberals, devil worshippers? Is this real life?"
Yes, it is real life. The woman behind this act, called Doge Walker, is a performance artist based in Atlanta named Jessica who has been trying to get this protest art up and running since last year. In 2015, she started a GoFundMe page to take it on the road, writing: "My name is Jessica and I am raising funds to support both myself and the nationwide presentation of Doge Walker, a live performative protest rooted in disabled, queer, and marginalized identities. Doge Walker is punk rock protest art. It is about reclaiming agency about disabled and marginalized people, taking back public space, rewriting narratives, and creating pathways towards justice, connection, and healing."
Cooper still doesn't understand how any of those things connect with the performance. The artist went viral after the most recent Atlanta No Kings protest, and even though she said her skin was thicker than brick, she took issue with people calling her a "welfare warrior" online. When defending herself, she revealed: "I received very little government assistance. In fact, I received Medicaid Medicare which helps for my medical costs which you know actually last time I totaled them up were about 330 to 360,000 dollars a year if you include my nursing care, my wheelchair."
Cooper was shocked—at every point she expected the artist to say she received minimal assistance, maybe $5,000 a year, but instead she claimed her bills are only $330,000 annually. Someone commented that the artist is entitled, subsidized, and performative—which Cooper believes sums up the entire left side of the political aisle. The best part is that the artist claims people were attacking her because she's disabled, in a wheelchair, because of how she looks. Cooper disagrees: people are genuinely just concerned and confused about how rolling around masked up with exposed breasts is doing anything to save democracy.
Don't Be Fooled by Fake Moderates
Cooper shows all this because it's still what conservatives are up against—people who cheered when Charlie Kirk was shot, who want to sterilize minors. She warns against being fooled by fake moderate candidates like Abigail Spanberger, or Democrats who suddenly think tax cuts are a great idea when they did everything in their power less than a year ago to stop DOGE and reverse everything Elon Musk accomplished. Tax cuts are now the hot new idea from Democrats, but Cooper doesn't trust them in the slightest.
Don't let Gavin Newsom and his slicked-back gelled hair make you forget what happened to California under his watch. Cooper means all of this, but she admits she'd be lying if she said it really pumped her up and got her excited. She looks at all the insanity, at the people Democrats are putting into office, and hates it. But then she thinks: what is the alternative?
Full Circle to Independent Values
Like it or not, Cooper is still on the political right. Her values haven't changed. Her hope for the future of the country hasn't changed compared to November 2024 or two years ago. She just feels a lot less confident in conservatives—or honestly anyone—being able to pull off that vision or represent her values. She thinks many people are stuck in this exact position.
Interestingly, this is actually where she started when she first began talking about politics. Her mom, whom she adores and considers her best friend, is a lifelong registered independent. Yes, she votes Republican, but leans libertarian. She never really believed in either side's ability to get things done and didn't feel the two-party system was effective in representing all Americans. That's the value system Cooper was raised under—conservative values, but never really Republican, never loving the GOP.
Over the last decade, something changed. Trump and his coalition seemed different, disruptive. Cooper did many episodes in 2024 talking about why voters loved him—he was going to shake everything up and change it. It was genuinely unifying, hopeful, and joyful. People from across the political spectrum believed that this time it might actually be different. He was an outsider who could disrupt and change things.
While there's plenty now that's better than before—and Cooper is grateful they dodged an absolute nuke with Kamala—they're still playing the same game of ping-pong between political parties. That deep-rooted corruption that works against the American people regardless of creed, race, or background still exists. Cooper doesn't know if that will ever change. She's unsure whether they were wrong and Trump is actually part of that system, or whether he got in there and tried to fix it but learned the hard way that the game really is rigged even against people like him.
A Challenge to Republican Leaders
This is where Cooper has found herself, and it's an odd position because she has influence and wants to wield it well. She doesn't want to black pill and complain every day, but she also doesn't want to lie and avoid the reality that so many Americans are facing by trying to convince people that things are better than they are.
She returns to something she says all the time: the things we can control are right here at home. In her personal life, that's what she chooses to focus on—what brings her joy. She invests in that when she's not doing the show, and suggests others do the same. Invest in your family, the things that bring you joy, build community, and get involved in local politics, because at the end of the day that's what you're coming home to and what matters.
But the uncomfortable caveat is that this doesn't mean becoming apathetic and handing over power to the Handmaid's Tale cosplayers and wheelchair protesters who would probably celebrate conservative deaths and hate everything they stand for. The alternative is to invest in homes and families while also working toward something better. But we can't do that alone.
Cooper ends with a direct challenge: Republicans who are in government or running for office owe it to their voters to get their act together and give them something to show up for in November. Conservatives can't just be unified against something—they need something to fight for and believe in. Right now, Republican leaders are losing people every single day. It's not just a voter problem; it's a leadership problem. Show up and deliver. People want to believe in you—give them something to believe in.
