Emily Jashinsky

Now, you probably didn't have Nicki Minaj giving a stinging rebuke of critical race theory on stage at a Turning Point USA conference on your 2025 bingo card.

I did not either.

But Minaj is interesting because she's kind of slowly in real time been working out

Maybe heterodox is the right way to put it, heterodox political beliefs.

She's pretty clearly started as somebody you could put on the left, maybe just kind of like mainstream Democrat, but she talked a little bit about what changed for her.

And I have a quote right here.

She said, I just got tired of being pushed around.

Sometimes you just get tired of it.

And another point she said, we're not allowed to think out loud anymore.

She also said, we're the cool kids, meaning the right.

She said...

At one point, God, as she was praying, said to her, where have you been?

I've been waiting for you.

Cause she's was talking a bit about returning back to her faith and it raises so many different, there are a lot of threads that we can pull on here.

So first of all, we start with the kind of CRT and it wasn't really named.

Nobody was talking about critical race theory and a technical academic sense, but Nicki Minaj speaking from her heart and

very graciously, by the way, I have a couple of other points to get to on that, but speaking from her heart graciously, eloquently, and wearing her heart very clearly on her sleeve with great production value, by the way, from Turning Point USA.

Now, if I had to think about Nicki Minaj speaking at like 2011 CPAC,

It's just, it's different now, right?

Her saying, quote, we are the cool kids hits totally differently when it's coming from a person on the right in 2025, almost 2026, because Donald Trump is now the president.