[6][7] In 2019 Ungar-Sargon articulated the importance of maintaining an American Jewish identity apart from Israeli politics, but rather one which embraces the values of civil and minority rights.

In the book, she argues that race-conscious "wokeness" provided by print media consumed by upper-class, educated readers has replaced the class-conscious reporting for a wider readership that dominated U.S. media in earlier periods, going back at least to the penny press era when all classes consumed low-cost newspapers.

[17] The book says that an identity politics based culture war has become the focus of media "catering almost exclusively to the interests of urban, upper-class liberals".

[20] In 2021, Bari Weiss of the Free Press said that Ungar-Sargon was very hard to pin down ideologically, but identified her as a left-wing populist.

[21] Ungar-Sargon herself self-identified as a left-wing populist in 2023, although acknowledged that many people would view her as repeating "conservative talking points".

[25][26][27] Jonathan Chait of New York magazine has suggested that Ungar-Sargon "depicts Trump as a tribune of the working man who is hated by the party elite because of his opposition to conservative economic policy", which Chait criticized as incorrect and misleading because Trump's rhetoric on policy rarely matches his actions.

[30][31] In those articles, Ungar-Sargon wrote that she opposes U.S. support for Ukraine, arguing that resources should prioritize economically disadvantaged Americans over foreign conflicts.

[30][31] In response, James Kirchick of The Atlantic labelled Ungar-Sargon a member of the "Intellectually Bankrupt Anti-war camp", accusing Ungar-Sargon of being part of a broader trend among certain political commentators who excuse imperialism while criticizing U.S. foreign policy, labeling her approach as shortsighted and reductive.

[31] In March 2024, in an article discussing what she perceived as a lack of left-wing solidarity for Israeli victims of sexual violence on October 7, Batya Ungar-Sargon expanded her feelings about left-wing politics, stating that At the end of the day, 7 October revealed how little of the left’s ideology is about values, and how much of it is about power – specifically, about using a person or a group’s supposedly abject status as a method of wielding power.

[32]Ungar-Sargon has spoken against environmentalism and green politics, arguing they align with elite interests at the expense of the working class.

While she acknowledges the sincerity of some political figures, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ungar-Sargon questions their commitment due to practices such as using private jets.

Ungar-Sargon had critiqued the outsourcing of jobs and environmental consequences to countries like China, viewing this as elitist and dismissive of American workers' realities.