Exclusive | Its never been a better time to date as a conservative: Meet the NYC singles looking for the right stuff and to Make America Hot Again
The hottest pickup line in singles bars today? “Hi, I’m MAGA.”No longer is it a liability to be an out-of-the-closet Republican — it’s actually a calling card, young singles told The Post.Comely conservatives are simply looking for a mate to MAGA with — and they’re breaking through in big, blue cities, at right-wing ragers, on targeted dating apps and at Trump rallies.“It’s never been a better time to date as a conservative,” crowed CJ Pearson, co-chair of the GOP Youth Advisory Council, who punched back against a January New York magazine piece smearing his diverse DC inauguration party as all-white.“Being conservative right now is the coolest it’s ever been,” added the single DC-based political advisor, who boasted that women want to be with a guy who’s a “provider and who they feel safe around.”Good luck finding that in a guy “with pronouns in his bio,” he added.For MAGA singles looking for love, like Raquel Debono, “hotness is a bipartisan issue.”That’s why she founded Make America Hot Again, a cheeky movement throwing parties for young conservatives around NYC at hotspots like downtown’s Sincerely, Ophelia and Trump Tower.“No more of these stuffy CPAC vibes,” the 29-year-old said.“We actually have fun and we’re normal.”With her regular bacchanals that can swell to as many as 300 people, love is definitely in the air.And apparently in the bathroom stalls.“There was a couple in the bathroom who were doing something highly inappropriate at my last party,” Debono told The Post about the politically-charged passion at a May bash, which attracted 50 sharp-dressed attendees.“It was getting hot and heavy in there,” she said.
“At least there was a happy ending somewhere.” The 29-year-old single lawyer from the West Village is happy to watch love blossom from the sidelines.“That’s why I throw these — I’m trying to find my husband,” Debono said of the parties that have a lopsided 60-40 split in ...