This is the gold mine in your piece..."Clark is half-right, though. Something is coercing women who would prefer to stay at home to work outside it: economic policies that Republicans traditionally endorse. In her speech, Clark acknowledges that maternity leave is insufficient..." It all comes down to economic power, it seems--and reinforces an age-old belief, who has the money, has the power. Which is why I never, ever, EVER would consider being a "tradwife." Imagine telling a man to hand over his economic security to another person, ever.
Is TPUSA attracting new converts or mostly preaching to the choir? Either way getting the news out is important, so many Americans do not know about the all out push of the Christofascists (and the rest which most of us have never heard of, ie 7 Mountains)
Hard to say--these kids may have grown up conservative, in fact probably, but by creating a conservative radicalizing space at college, TPUSA aims to keep them that way
I figured you were taking advantage of your will be ticket to attend events and work stories so even though I missed reading your stuff I knew some good stuff was likely on its way. Thanks for the heads up on Frontier not tgat I'm in a position to fly right now. I agree TPUSA is likely more dangerous than CPAC bc they are more linked in with the Christofascists movement, 7 Mountains, NAR etc. Be safe and send pics from Miami otay Lady?
"Soft pink light half-illuminates thousands of chairs, while the largest disco ball I have ever seen bathes the ceiling in drops of mercury. The screen behind the enormous stage is neon sherbet, and strobe lights beckon us forward."
Sounds like someone owes the Righteous Gemstones some royalties
"She does not talk about how, starting in the disco era that the conference paid tribute to, real wages have remained stagnant while the cost of living has skyrocketed, or the fact that 25 percent of our shared millennial generation still lives with their parents. She does not advocate for better maternity leave or tax code reform or a long hard look at late-stage capitalism. As always, the conservative solution begins and ends with bootstraps."
How funny. Because all those things are the source of the discontent that creates the churn of social stress that white tenuously middle class men are having an existential crisis over and thus are turning towards... Christofascism, the far right, TPUSA, etc etc... How odd that women are expected to bear, joyously, the burdens that men themselves apparently find intolerable.
"Tolerance is about acceptance, acceptance is about control,”
That legitimately is some AAA grade DoubleSpeak. I actually let out air when I read it.
This all feels so much like Phyllis Schlafly rhetoric that I'd fail these speakers if they were giving these speeches in a class because of plagerism. She's one of the masters of pulling the ladder up after herself and her rhetoric is all over the double standard that the speakers exhude. Part of me almost wants to try to saturate this demographic with knowledge of Schlafly, if for no other reason than to make it plainly obvious the rhetoric is boring and trite and ripped off. That these are not new ideas. I know it won't work, but it's the only thing I can come up with.
Excellent writing as always.
Edit 2:
I feel like if the right sticks with this rhetoric for very long it's going to turn into one of those un-person things that Stalin did where you get erased from history and the public discourse after it comes out you beat the shit out of your wife or whatever. I'm guessing you'll never see Crowder working that tradwife angle at TPUSA now that video has come out of how pissy, abusive, and whiny and... well... fucking beta he is. I'm legit surprised that they let Bobo up there after the nuclear meltdown that was her marriage came out. Which makes me wonder, was she locked in too far in advance? Or is the emphasis on pumping out babies and not necessarily marriage? Overall it kind of feels more like one of those messages from They Live (ahem https://i.imgur.com/Zblfus1.png) than it feels like a reinforcement of the family unit.
This is the gold mine in your piece..."Clark is half-right, though. Something is coercing women who would prefer to stay at home to work outside it: economic policies that Republicans traditionally endorse. In her speech, Clark acknowledges that maternity leave is insufficient..." It all comes down to economic power, it seems--and reinforces an age-old belief, who has the money, has the power. Which is why I never, ever, EVER would consider being a "tradwife." Imagine telling a man to hand over his economic security to another person, ever.
Is TPUSA attracting new converts or mostly preaching to the choir? Either way getting the news out is important, so many Americans do not know about the all out push of the Christofascists (and the rest which most of us have never heard of, ie 7 Mountains)
Hard to say--these kids may have grown up conservative, in fact probably, but by creating a conservative radicalizing space at college, TPUSA aims to keep them that way
I figured you were taking advantage of your will be ticket to attend events and work stories so even though I missed reading your stuff I knew some good stuff was likely on its way. Thanks for the heads up on Frontier not tgat I'm in a position to fly right now. I agree TPUSA is likely more dangerous than CPAC bc they are more linked in with the Christofascists movement, 7 Mountains, NAR etc. Be safe and send pics from Miami otay Lady?
"Soft pink light half-illuminates thousands of chairs, while the largest disco ball I have ever seen bathes the ceiling in drops of mercury. The screen behind the enormous stage is neon sherbet, and strobe lights beckon us forward."
Sounds like someone owes the Righteous Gemstones some royalties
https://i.imgur.com/xtNtP3Z.jpg
Also...
"She does not talk about how, starting in the disco era that the conference paid tribute to, real wages have remained stagnant while the cost of living has skyrocketed, or the fact that 25 percent of our shared millennial generation still lives with their parents. She does not advocate for better maternity leave or tax code reform or a long hard look at late-stage capitalism. As always, the conservative solution begins and ends with bootstraps."
How funny. Because all those things are the source of the discontent that creates the churn of social stress that white tenuously middle class men are having an existential crisis over and thus are turning towards... Christofascism, the far right, TPUSA, etc etc... How odd that women are expected to bear, joyously, the burdens that men themselves apparently find intolerable.
"Tolerance is about acceptance, acceptance is about control,”
That legitimately is some AAA grade DoubleSpeak. I actually let out air when I read it.
This all feels so much like Phyllis Schlafly rhetoric that I'd fail these speakers if they were giving these speeches in a class because of plagerism. She's one of the masters of pulling the ladder up after herself and her rhetoric is all over the double standard that the speakers exhude. Part of me almost wants to try to saturate this demographic with knowledge of Schlafly, if for no other reason than to make it plainly obvious the rhetoric is boring and trite and ripped off. That these are not new ideas. I know it won't work, but it's the only thing I can come up with.
Excellent writing as always.
Edit 2:
I feel like if the right sticks with this rhetoric for very long it's going to turn into one of those un-person things that Stalin did where you get erased from history and the public discourse after it comes out you beat the shit out of your wife or whatever. I'm guessing you'll never see Crowder working that tradwife angle at TPUSA now that video has come out of how pissy, abusive, and whiny and... well... fucking beta he is. I'm legit surprised that they let Bobo up there after the nuclear meltdown that was her marriage came out. Which makes me wonder, was she locked in too far in advance? Or is the emphasis on pumping out babies and not necessarily marriage? Overall it kind of feels more like one of those messages from They Live (ahem https://i.imgur.com/Zblfus1.png) than it feels like a reinforcement of the family unit.
Great writing as always.
Superb. The bootstraps paragraph and the ending. Chef's kiss