[2] While she supports identity politics in general, she says that some on the left have contributed to the rise of the alt-right with their "performative wokeness", which often involves censoring dissidents and ganging up on them.

[10] In November 2018, American Affairs published Nagle's essay "The Left Case against Open Borders", in which she voiced opposition to immigration from a left-wing perspective.

Abrahamian states that "it’s hard not to think that it’s arguments like [Nagle's] that damage the left by legitimizing the idea that someone arbitrarily born on the wrong side of a line is less deserving of a good life.

"[17] Writing in The Independent, Slovenian philosopher and academic Slavoj Žižek commented on the "ferocious attacks on Angela Nagle for her outstanding essay.

"[18] American cultural theorist and author Catherine Liu defended Nagle, considering her to be "one of the brightest lights in a new generation of left writers and thinkers who have declared their independence from intellectual conformity".