Michelle Goldberg writes about the latest MAGA target today. (gift link)
If you read conservative media, you might have heard about a new danger stalking our besieged country.
This week, Fox News warned about “organized gangs of wine moms” using “antifa tactics” against ICE. According to a column in the right-wing PJ Media, the “greatest threat to our nation” is a “group of ‘unindicted domestic terrorists’ who are just AWFL: Affluent White Liberal Women.” (The acronym is wrong, but never mind.) The Canadian influencer Lauren Chen — who had to leave the United States in 2024 after the Department of Justice accused her of working for a Russian propaganda operation, but was allowed back in by the Trump administration — wrote that the ideology of women like Renee Good is “almost wholly responsible for the decline of Western civilization.”
It’s as if the right is speedrunning the Martin Niemöller poem that begins, “First they came for the Communists.” ICE’s invasion of Minneapolis started with the demonization of Somali immigrants. It took only weeks for conservative demagogues to direct their venom toward the middle-class women of the Resistance. We’re now seeing an outpouring of misogynist rage driven by both political expedience
I’m more of a tequila drinking, childless, cat lady but we’re all in this together. And we are pissed.
They used to call us “feminazis” but as my friend Brad Friedman quipped during my appearance on his show yesterday, they had to abandon that because they can’t afford to insult Nazis.