'Fantasy for MAGA men': Project 2025-linked dating app gets torn apart by columnist
A dating app promising love to right-wingers and set up by a leader of Project 2025 was decimated Wednesday in a column that slammed it as a ‘fantasy for MAGA men.”
The app, called “The Right Stuff,” was devised by John McEntee, an advisor in Donald Trump’s White House who is now a senior member of Project 2025, the sweeping plan to overhaul the federal government that’s been connected to the Trump campaign.
The matching site was lambasted by Salon’s Amanda Marcotte, who slammed it as a right-wing “grift” which is causing serious concern about the data it’s collecting from its right-wing users.
“For one thing, while it's exclusively for heterosexual people, the app seems to suffer a dearth of female users,” she wrote.
In fact, she reported, women see it as a joke, failing to sign up and leaving Republican men seeking conservative love in a chamber devoid of potential partners.
"Women on the app are eligible for a free premium subscription, which goes to show how few women sign up in the first place,” she wrote.
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She then laid into the marketing of the site — including a video showing a man on a date “with a woman who cannot wait to hear your most despicable opinions.“
“You're positioned as an adoring lady silently soaking in McEntee's rant accusing drag queens of being pedophiles while he houses a hamburger," she wrote.
“One thing this marketing campaign almost certainly is not about: attracting female users to The Right Stuff,” she continued. “Even for conservative women, it's not exactly the dream date scenario to sit there in silence while some dude unloads his cruelest and dumbest ideas. No, this appears to be a fantasy for MAGA men. The dream is a woman who will do that for you. And if you can't have that in reality, you can watch these videos and pretend to be the guy on a date, bleating nonsense while a woman listens.”
She concluded that the site is McEntee’s “perfect grift" designed to funnel people into Project 2025's agenda.
“First, identify alienated men and promise them a path out of loneliness and into the heterosexual relationship of their dreams,” she wrote. “Second, encourage those men to adopt even more repugnant behaviors that make it even harder for them to attract women. Then, when those men become even more frustrated, push them further to the right, blaming all their problems on feminists, liberals and LGBTQ people.”