How a Black Progressive Transformed Into a Conservative Star

Xaviaer DuRousseau once marched in Black Lives Matter protests. Then he started watching PragerU videos — and they resonated with him. In the summer of 2020, Xaviaer DuRousseau was preparing to appear on a Netflix reality show called “The Circle,” where a group of strangers, isolated in separate apartments, compete for a cash prize and occasionally adopt fake digital personas to trick one another. Mr. DuRousseau, then 23, was a progressive who marched in Black Lives Matter protests, had pushed his university to require ethnic studies courses as a graduation requirement and voted for Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont in...