It’s worth noting that MacDonald, while very much a conservative, is nothing like a talk-radio provocateur. She’s scholarly and principled, she doesn’t blow with the wind to use the talking points of the week, and she doesn’t follow the herd on every issue. When talking about BLM, she never fails to acknowledge (and to condemn) the history of racism in this country and the history of institutional support for racism by law enforcement. She’s low key and soft-spoken, carefully nonoffensive, a long way from Steve Bannon or Milo Yiannopoulos.