‘Crash Out Kylie’: How a Queer Feminist Became Famous (Not in a Good Way) : The Other McCain

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Kylie Brewer a/k/a ‘Crash Out Kylie’

Because I don’t pay much attention to podcasts, I overlooked some delicious drama last year, when an Ivy League-educated “queer feminist” named Kylie Brewer went on the popular “Whatever” show, hosted by Brian Atlas. The show flew her out from Chicago to California for her spotlight appearance, where she was confronted by a well-known Christian debater, Andrew Wilson (he’s “controversial,” and good luck finding a biography of him). Wilson was well-prepared for this meeting, whereas Ms. Brewer had apparently never been in the situation of being confronted by an intelligent person who disagreed with her.

• Question: How do people defend irrational beliefs?
• Answer: With irrational defenses.

By early 2025, Kylie Brewer had developed a fairly large following on TikTok and Instagram, with an audience of tens of thousands for her short-form feminist videos. However, her audience as a drop in the bucket compared to the Whatever podcast, which has 4.5 million subscribers on YouTube. On her own TikTok/IG channels, Kylie occasionally had people leave rude comments, but these people were not skilled polemicists — knowledgeable and articulate, communications professionals capable of making persuasive arguments. As mentioned previously, I’ve been unable to find an online biography of Andrew Wilson, so I don’t know anything about his educational background or career experience, but it is obvious that he is highly skilled as a debater, and Kylie Brewer was not ready to meet such an antagonist.

She got embarrassed in front of an audience of millions, and it completely freaked her out. She had an episode of Bell’s palsy — partial paralysis of her facial muscles, almost certainly a stress response — and threatened a lawsuit against the “Whatever” podcast. That’s how she became notorious as “Crash Out Kylie,” and she’s been living with that notoriety ever since.

What happened to Kylie Brewer highlights what’s fundamentally wrong with contemporary elite education. A native of California, she was such a promising high school student that she was admitted to Brown University. Conservative faculty are extremely rare in Ivy League institutions. Studies have shown that academia, which was always tilted toward liberalism, has shifted even more leftward in the past 25 years.

The result is that most universities are now ideological cocoons, political echo chambers where only left-wing voices are heard. The only prominent conservative faculty member at Brown University is economics professor emeritus Glenn Loury, and I seriously doubt that Kylie Brewer — who majored in psychology and creative writing at Brown — had any interaction with Professor Loury. What kind of thinking does this educational experience encourage?

Here you have Kylie Brewer declaring that there are four kinds of conservatives — (1) greedy, (2) racist, (3) ignorant or (4) apathetic. I would reply with a question: What does “conservative” mean?

Until the mid-1990s, I was a Democrat, born and bred, a fierce partisan loyalist who put a Clinton-Gore bumper sticker on my old Chevy in 1992. The first two years of the Clinton presidency were enough to cure me of that allegiance, permanently. It would take too long to cite every grievance that contributed to my disillusionment with the Democratic Party, or to provide a reading list of the books that I read during those years that led me to embrace a conservative worldview. The point is that I was a responsible adult — a married father of three, in my mid-30s — when my political opinions decisively shifted, whereas Kylie Brewer is a 24-year-old fresh out off college, presuming to lecture me (and everyone else) about who conservatives are, and caricaturing their motives in the most negative way. Ma’am, I’ve got T-shirts older than you.

What is conservatism?

The simple answer: Opposition to liberalism.

Intellectuals get hung up trying to define conservatism as some kind of coherent philosophy — “first principles” and all that — but it’s really nothing more than what happens when you look at liberalism in action and decide for yourself, “This sucks. I’m against it.”

Because the policy agenda and rhetorical message of liberalism changes over time, the conservative opposition also much shift its ground, defending society against new forms of liberal aggression.

Almost anyone who cares about preserving what is good about America must eventually join the ranks of conservatives. The fact that much of what my generation inherited from our parents’ generation had been built by New Deal liberalism does not in any way change that understanding of what conservatism is and what we strive to do.

The reality is that liberalism (or progressivism, or whatever else you might wish to call the agenda of the left wing of the Democratic Party) is not a stable set of policies. Liberalism always demands new initiatives, new programs, new classes of allegedly “oppressed” people to be made beneficiaries of taxpayer-funded boondoggles. You don’t have to denounce and repudiate the New Deal in order to oppose, e.g., providing “free” sex-change surgery to prison inmates. The fact that you supported some previous iteration of liberalism does not require you to support unlimited foreign immigration or subsidies for “green energy.”

A conservative might be a laissez-faire idealist — willing to rip apart the whole rotten structure of the Welfare State erected since the Wilson administration — but it is not necessary to be so inclined. Within the existing two-party system, all you have to do is recognize that the Democrats are never going to stop trying to expand the bureaucratic apparatus of government, seeking power of totalitarian proportions, in order to decide: “This sucks. I’m against it.” Welcome to the club.

Kylie Brewer’s biggest problem is that she’s so perilously young, and living in an era when people her age can talk into their iPhone cameras and have careers as “content creators” — influencers! When I was her age, I was playing in rock-and-roll bands, working as a nightclub DJ, driving a forklift, etc. Lecturing the world about politics at age 24? Never crossed my mind circa 1984, and I can’t imagine why Kylie Brewer or anyone else would imagine the world needs such lectures.

Yes, you need a DEI dating agenda, Kylie says, and if you’re skeptical of that recommendation, you must be some kind of Nazi! Did I mention, by the way, that Kylie Brewer is a queer feminist? Not exactly sure what she means by that proclamation — “queer” is a sort of umbrella term, and I haven’t watched enough of her videos to know if she’s been very specific in this regard — but we can assume it to mean a repudiation of heterosexuality, per se. Just as it is wrong to date only members of your own race, according to Kylie, so it is also wrong to be exclusively heterosexual. You must date everybody, of every race and gender, or else you’re guilty of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and probably some other “-isms” and “-phobias” yet to be discovered.

Whatever happened to liberals being “tolerant”? Some of us are old enough to remember when “tolerance” was a rallying cry for liberals, and yet nowadays they’re all about bossing us around, telling us what we can and cannot do, arrogating to themselves the authority of Thought Police to censor anyone who disagrees with them: “RAAAAACIST!”

If you needed any further incentive to vote Republican in the November midterms, now you have it — if Democrats win, the Kylie Brewer agenda could become federal law, and we’ll all be sent to Maoist re-education camps to endure “struggle sessions,” under the supervision of 24-year-old Ivy League graduates as our latter-day Red Guards.

Kylie Brewer is very young, and probably doesn’t know the first thing about Maoist China, or the Cold War, the Soviet Union, the Khmer Rouge, etc. She wasn’t even born when 9/11 happened, and was only 14 when Hillary lost to Donald Trump, so that her frame of reference for politics is a tiny slice of very recent history. Whereas I was born during the Eisenhower administration, and am old enough to remember seeing JFK’s funeral on our black-and-white TV when I was four years old. The Vietnam War played out on the nightly news during my childhood and I was 14 when Nixon resigned amid the Watergate scandal.

Having an extra four decades of direct experience of political history gives me a much different perspective on current politics than Kylie Brewer possesses, and as much as I lament the necessity of invoking seniority, how did we reach this weird cultural moment where kids fresh out of college think we are in need of their tutelage? Probably goes back to an impertinent young Yale alumnus, with that book of his in 1951 . . .

Buckley was just 26 when God and Man at Yale was published, but he was an old 26. He’d been commissioned an Army lieutenant at 19, after completing Officer Candidate School amid World War II, then served two years in the OSS/CIA before matriculating at Yale. Rather than lecturing his elders about their faults and shortcomings, what Buckley did was to expose to the outside world what was actually transpiring on the Yale campus which then had the reputation as a bastion of conservatism. In fact, as Buckley demonstrated, liberalism had crept into the curriculum — he particularly focused on what students were taught about religion and economics — and this exposure had quite an extraordinary effect, coming as it did at a time when America was just beginning its “long twilight struggle” against the worldwide Communist menace. Buckley found himself denounced by eminent Yale alumni (McGeorge Bundy among them), even as he became the hero of conservatives nationwide.

According to Kylie Brewer’s definition, Buckley was either greedy, racist, ignorant or apathetic — although perhaps some combination of all four — and she considers herself qualified to deliver this verdict without ever having read a single paragraph Buckley ever wrote.

Well, having expended more than 1,500 words on “Crash Out Kylie,” I’ll leave you with this: Time itself is “white supremacy.”

Crash Out Kylie thinks time is racist, possibly one of the other stupidest things ever said by her. pic.twitter.com/wUJhM0HTiH

— Brian Atlas (@BrianAtlas) August 5, 2025

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