Before 2023 Kasparian described herself as an
atheist who pushes for
progressive values. She has advocated for criminal justice reform and has been a critic of private and for-profit prisons, calling them "hideous institutions". She has argued that these institutions create a financial incentive to keep more people in prison for longer periods of time, rather than working to rehabilitate and reintegrate them into society. She also points out that these prisons often provide substandard conditions and inadequate services and may be less accountable to the public than government-run facilities. She has advocated for campaign finance reform in order to get money out of politics. In December 2016, she gave a
TEDx talk on this subject explaining a path that could be taken to achieve
campaign finance reform, such as limiting the amount of money that individuals and organizations can contribute to political campaigns, increasing transparency and disclosure requirements for campaign spending, and implementing public financing systems for political campaigns. She has expressed a belief in
free education for the United States, based on a conviction that access to education should be a basic right for all citizens, regardless of their socio-economic background. She has also said that she believes everyone should have access to decent, safe, and affordable housing.
Since 2023 Since 2023, she has distanced herself from the progressive label. In 2023,
In These Times described her as “currently mourning the leftism she now believes ‘gaslit’ her about a ‘crime wave’ it refuses to admit.” She told a podcast about “disaffected Democrats” that “I’m going through something very real and very sincere and it’s uncomfortable.” In 2024, she declared herself "
unaligned" and "politically homeless", saying she “woke up” when mentioning her shift toward more
conservative views on crime and homelessness. Since 2023, she has been critical of gender-affirming care for trans people, particularly minors, arguing that it causes "irreparable harm". She is critical of
identity politics, stating that "the biggest 'change' that some of you might have noticed with me is that I'm done with the identitarian garbage. I'm done with it. It is a giant distraction." Kasparian has been critical of
cancel culture, and during an appearance on
The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore in November 2015 criticized what she viewed as support of cancel culture in progressive spaces, saying "people do stupid and offensive things all the time, and we can't expect to be shielded from it." Kasparian is critical of California governor
Gavin Newsom and the Democrats in the
California State Legislature for what she considers "soft-on-crime" politics. In late November 2024, Kasparian referred to Newsom as the worst governor in the country "by a lot." She also criticized
leftists,
progressive policies on climate change and homelessness, and the
Democratic Party. In an early December interview with conservative commentator
Glenn Beck on
The Blaze network, Kasparian criticized Democrats for allegedly downplaying immigration issues and said that Republican Texas governor
Greg Abbott brought the matter to the forefront of public consciousness by busing migrants to
sanctuary cities. She also referred to Democratic legislators in California as "
grifters" due to perceived hypocrisy in their stance on immigration. Although she supports the deportation of violent undocumented criminals, she has condemned what she believes to be the weaponization of
ICE to deport law-abiding immigrants and political opponents of the American right since the beginning of Trump's second term. Kasparian is a vocal critic of
Israel. Kasparian was accused of
antisemitism in 2025 when she did an impersonation of
Oracle founder
Larry Ellison. In early 2026, she described
Jeffrey Epstein’s network as a “pedophile ring/Israeli blackmail operation” and asked an Israeli interlocutor “Why are you monsters always slaughtering innocent children and shaking us down for money?” In February 2026, Kasparian praised
Tucker Carlson (who she had interviewed in 2025) on
Twitter for opposing a potential American war with
Iran. In that same interview with Carlson, Kasparian spoke of Israel arming Azerbaijan with weapons in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, leading to the
ethnic cleansing of over 120,000 Armenians from the region. In response to a critic calling her defense of Carlson antisemitic, Kasparian replied, "Hey, bitch, the
goyim are waking the fuck up. Deal with it." The term "goyim", a word for non-Jews in
Hebrew, had by the 2020s been adapted by far-right commentators to promote
antisemitic conspiracy theories. Several critics alleged Kasparian's comment was antisemitic. Kasparian denied her comment was antisemitic, writing, "I do not regret this comment." Kasparian further said that "Israel is evil,
genocidal and has destroyed our country." ==Personal life==