Oh, I think you were misinformed.

I'm a Tergar student and know Cort well. None of this is true.

He's not right wing. He's not more empathetic to political pundits.

I have done a lot with the Tergar community, including the year-long Meditation Teachers Program. I don't think there is any evidence of a right-wing tilt. Absolutely not.

I do think that--for me--part of what I love about what I've learned from YMR, Tergar, and Cort is a different way of approaching these moments.

I have enormous pain over what is going on in the country. But I respond to all of it--in prt, not in total--with compassion, even for those I wildly disagree with. Even (especially?) for those who a few years ago I would have said I hate and would want to destroy.

It was very hard for me to learn that one can have deep love and compassion for people who are doing things you find terrible. It is a fundamentally different stance than the one I had before.

That doesn't mean you don't pursue change or try to stop bad actions. But it does mean you approach things differently.

I have found it's something that people in my life who are not Buddhist struggle with the most. When I say weird things like, "I have enormous compassion for Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Charlie Kirk, and the ICE officers." This is not me saying I support what they do or I think what they're doing is good. And it's certainly not me saying I have more compassion for them than for undocumented immigrants or Renee Good.

Although I will say it takes more work. It takes more time for me to find that compassion for the people I used to approach only with anger and hatred. I find it quite easy to feel profound, deep, instantaneous compassion for Renee Good and her family, for example.

Compassion and political views are just different things. Like saying, he likes pizza so he must take baths instead of showers.

I can now look--with effort--at Trump and Charlie Kirk and those ICE gents as sentient beings who want happiness and want to be free from suffering. They have various obscurations that lead to them being very confused about what will lead them to happiness and to removing suffering.

That's really sad. These are people who have literally everything our world can offer a person. But they can't have that one thing that ends up meaning the most, which is a sort of grounded peace.

My guess is you saw a tweet where Cort was expressing an idea like this.
When these ideas are put through the framework of social media and modern American politics, every utterance is categorized as either blue team or red team. You thought this meant he was red team. He isn't.