Richard Hanania

Richard Hanania (born August 28, 1985) is an American political science researcher and right-wing political commentator.[3] He is the founder and president of the think tank Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI).[4][5][6] He has written for The Washington Post,[3] The New York Times, The Atlantic,[5] and Quillette.[5] He wrote The Origins of Woke and publishes his newsletter on Substack. Between 2008 and the early 2010s, Hanania wrote for alt-right and white supremacist publications under the pseudonym Richard Hoste.[6][7] He acknowledged and disavowed his writing under the pseudonym when it was reported in 2023.[6][5] A number of journalists have said that Hanania continues to make racist statements under his own name.[4][8] Hanania was a contributor to Project 2025 regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion practices.[9] Since then, he has become more critical of the second Trump administration and the MAGA movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hanania

• He is often labeled as a libertarian,[6] but he supports limiting civil liberties through increased police power aimed at Black Americans and has praised mass arrests in El Salvador.[5] In a 2023 essay, Hanania wrote that the only way to reduce crime is "a revolution in our culture or form of government. We need more policing, incarceration, and surveillance of black people. Blacks won't appreciate it, whites don't have the stomach for it."[5][23][24] The essay caught the attention of Elon Musk, who called it "interesting".[6] In his 2023 book The Origins of Woke, Hanania argues that central causes of "wokeness" are the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and multiple inventive court decisions and executive orders.