Antonia Hitchens

She describes her own evolution as, you know, having nothing to do with the way that she was raised, more having to do with kind of a reaction to what she saw as overly progressive values being imposed on her.

In the setting of her prep school and then also in the setting of her university.

Loomer describes a very chaotic and, in her telling, sometimes violent environment in which her brother's outbursts consumed the household.

And so her father, as she tells it, felt most comfortable sending his other two children to boarding school to be able to focus on the one child who was in need of more care and then also parents.

And Laura's telling to sort of protect her and her other brother from that environment.

And so they go off to this school in the Arizona desert where she describes an intense feeling of isolation.

There was a curfew for phone calls.

There was no Internet.

There were very few people there.

And I think to me, it sort of conjured the.

initial sense of being cut off from the world from her family even all these years before she's really cut off from the internet and i think describes kind of almost like a almost a continuation of the sense that she's just completely cast out on her own with no way of accessing conversation

So I think this has been something that Loomer always phrases in such different terms from those who speak about her.

Loomer describes a sense of being driven basically to the point that she snapped after she was banned from social media.

And

In that time period, she is doing cocaine a lot.

She threatens to drive her car off a cliff.

It's a period which she describes as, you know, incredibly riddled by anxiety and depression and a sense of what she later goes on to say, PTSD, which she denies.

sought therapy for.

Her campaign manager, however, describes, you know, being asked to run this race for Loomer and having an intense skepticism of her, partly for her fringe views and partly for the sense that she wasn't calibrated to kind of run a campaign in public and comport herself in the manner that, you know, you'd want a candidate to be able to, you too.

But Giorno imposes the conditions that you brought up and Giorno then, in her telling,