In January 2021, he was fired after tweeting, "If Biden really wanted unity, he’d lynch Mike Pence," which he later apologized for.

He subsequently was invited to appear on podcasts hosted by The New York Times, The Argument and the Ezra Klein Show Podcast, hosted by Ezra Klein, to discuss his experience.

[3][4] Following his firing by the Niskanen Center, Wilkinson launched a Substack newsletter, "Model Citizen".

His political philosophy was described by The American Conservative as "Rawlsekian"; that is, a mixture of John Rawls's principles and Friedrich von Hayek's methods.

Wilkinson formerly described his political views as libertarian, but he now rejects that label.