Justine Bateman says she celebrated Kamala Harris’ 2024 election loss while slamming ‘woke mob mentality’

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Justine Bateman recently revealed that she celebrated former vice president Kamala Harris' loss in the 2024 presidential election while decrying the "woke mob mentality".

According to an interview with The Irish Times, Bateman believes a Kamala Harris presidency would have been a disaster for the US.

She thinks that liberal left-wing orthodoxies have taken command of the cultural conversation and enforced on it a set of rules that she finds to be increasingly shrill and absurd, per the outlet.

Justine Bateman decries 'woke mob mentality'

Justine Bateman said during the interview, "I don’t like politics or politicians, generally speaking. I was so glad that enough people were like: we are done with this. It got really insane and I kept thinking a senator or world leader or someone will say: 'enough'."

"To me, the American spirit is: come over here and live your life however you like as long as that doesn’t impinge on my right to do the same. Don’t get in my face and start telling me how I am supposed to behave or relate to other people," she added.

The interview also covered Bateman’s thoughts on cosmetic surgery.

Interestingly, she published a short story collection about aging and cosmetic surgery in 2022 titled 'Face: One Square Foot of Skin'. It was a hit with people across the world.

Bateman explained, "I knew it would strike a chord with some people. But it was immediate and huge. I got over a thousand DMs from women – and some men – and the feeling was: relief."

"Under this accusation that their faces were broken and had to be fixed for so long, and you don’t realize how much you were holding it in your body," she continued.

Bateman added that the book might have a larger cultural impact and likened it to the political dynamics at play in the US in 2025.

"The conversation had moved to: which procedures should you get? You know? It was a fait accompli. And I felt it was insane," the 'Family Ties' actress said.

She added, "So, people are saying perhaps that book was a tipping point – just like this election was a tipping point for the woke mob mentality momentum. Perhaps my book changed that ‘your face is broken’ momentum."

Bateman added that the "woke mob mentality" has made life in Los Angeles different from what it was earlier.

She said, "Up until eight years ago, it had that: 'hey man, you do you' attitude. It can be annoying but that was LA. And then we had the invasion of the hall monitors and the party-poopers and the finger pointing and people telling you what to do. That really jacked out the spirit of this place."

Justine Bateman's friends distanced themselves because of her criticism of Biden administration

In November 2024, Justine Bateman revealed that her criticism of Joe Biden's administration following Donald Trump's win in the 2024 presidential election made her friends turn their backs on her.

She told the New York Post in an interview that she has been warned that she is aligning herself with "anti-woman, anti-gay, anti, anti, anti, anti."

After the election was called for Trump, Bateman took to X (formerly Twitter) to share, "Decompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years."

She wrote in another post, "I have found the last four years to be an almost intolerable period. A very un-American period in that any questioning, any opinions, any likes or dislikes were held up to a very limited list of 'permitted positions' in order to assess acceptability."

However, she informed the outlet that her posts were not taken well and some even went as far as to call her a "Nazi".

She said, "I did have friends say, 'I love you, call me anytime, but I have to unfollow you' or 'I have to distance myself from you online, publicly'."

"I have been quoted publicly since 1982. You want a collection of quotes to try and support your argument that I am any of those things? Go for it, man. There’s so much material you can look through. And you will find nothing," Bateman added.

She also said, "So the fact that people have to distance themselves from me … Look, I still love them, that’s fine. But every time they do that, and I’m also talking about strangers now, they absolutely prove my point."