In Wu's case she's an opportunist. Her goal in life is to be some kind of thought leader. And, while she is very rightwing, she thought she had a better chance grifting to the left. She also doesn't realize just how rightwing she is. Because she is, frankly, not the sharpest....
Someone on Twitter found an interview with her when she was running for office, where she said she’s not a progressive and never was one. But suddenly she claimed to be a former progressive? I think most of them do it because they want to say “no I’m a good progressive!”
...Like I'm sure everyone calling the crap she said about finding the trans gene so we could get rid of it eugenics was a surprise to her. I don't think she knew that was a eugenicist opinion beforehand.
I don’t think she does now either because she has a great combo of having terrible beliefs but being ridiculously assured that she is correct and everyone else is wrong