History
Hochman joined the National Review in August 2021. In an article titled "Conservatism in 2021 means radicalism", he wrote that the conservative movement had "been way too deferential to business interests at the expense of the people and the values that we claim to care about". He also wrote that conservatives should see themselves "as counterrevolutionaries or restorationists who are overthrowing the regime". [4] [3] According to The New Republic, Hochman had been described as a prominent figure in the "New Right" of the 2020s. [4]
As of 2022, he was a fellow of the Claremont Institute and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. [3] Hochman wrote a guest article for the New York Times in June of that year, in which he described the modern conservative movement as more secular and centered around on class, race and culture war issues. [5] Hochman argued in an article for The Spectator that the Republican Party should work to maximize the turnout of white voters as a political strategy, which The Guardian described as an echoing of the Sailer Strategy. In an article titled "Was it Worth the Empanadas?" Hochman argued that immigration would "dismantle and replace both America and the civilization that gave birth to it". [6]
According to a 2022 article published on conservative website TheDispatch, Hochman had debated white nationalist Nick Fuentes in a Twitter Spaces group in 2021. In the debate, he disagreed with Fuentes on a number of topics, while also telling him that "[y]ou’ve gotten a lot of kids based, and we respect that for sure" and that "I think Nick is probably a better influence than Ben Shapiro on young men". He criticized Fuentes' focus on white identitarianism, saying that "that kind of politics is no longer viable in America. Maybe it would be ideal if it were, but if you are running a political campaign, a political strategy around activating white identity as an organizing principle of your politics [ensures that] you are going to lose." [1] [3] Hochman was stripped of a number of his political fellowships and disavowed Fuentes later in the same year. [7] [1]
Hochman left the National Review in March 2023 in order to work in Florida governor Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign. [1] During the campaign, Hochman used a pro-DeSantis social media account to share a video in which the Seal of Florida transformed into the Black Sun, a symbol adopted by neo-Nazis, interposed with the image of soldiers marching. According to Axios , the video was produced by Hochman himself, [8] [9] [10] which he said was not true. [11] A different video shared by the same account included an image of DeSantis alongside Benito Mussolini and other Nazi activists. [12] Hochman was fired in July. [1]
In 2024, Hochman was hired as an advisor to America 2100, a thinktank with ties to then-United States senator Marco Rubio. Hochman has also written for the IM-1776 magazine, which The Guardian described as a far-right publication that had defended Holocaust revisionist Darryl Cooper and published alt-right activist Douglass Mackey's writings. [1] Hochman was hired as a policy advisor to United States senator Eric Schmitt in 2025. [7]