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Fitness entrepreneur Jillian Michaels described her political evolution away from the left as a disorienting reckoning, comparing it to the awakening scene in the film "The Matrix," during a wide-ranging interview on Dave Rubin's "The Rubin Report" podcast.
The 52-year-old said that marriage to a conservative partner, the COVID-19 pandemic, and what she characterised as systemic media dishonesty each accelerated her break with progressive orthodoxy.
She closed with a warning she framed as broadly applicable: the pressure to conform "comes for everyone." A Marriage, a Pandemic, and a Worldview Upended Michaels told Rubin that her departure from the left began inside her own household.
Her conservative wife, she said, challenged her assumptions early in their relationship, leading to what Michaels described as "very many fights" before she began to question her prior political framework.
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