IT’S COME TO THIS: Now Even Stay-At-Home Moms are Fascist.
There are many different ways to accuse conservatives of fascism.
You could, for instance, claim that the Federal Communications Commission is really just the punishing arm of a fascist government when it suggests that maybe late-night show hosts should try not to peddle obvious lies.
Or, you might insist that Sunday’s faith-filled and inspiring memorial for Charlie Kirk was really just “NOT-C PROPAGANDA,” as D.L. Hughley, a former CNN commentator, two-time New York Times bestselling author, and self-proclaimed comedian, did on Instagram. After all, Stephen Miller sounded an awful lot like Adolf Hitler’s chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, and the conservative response to Kirk’s death looks an awful lot like the Nazi response to the killing of Horst Wessel in 1930.
(READ MORE: The SPLC and the Radicalization of Charlie Kirk’s Killer)
Then again, you could take an entirely different tack. You could, as Adrienne Matei did in the pages of the Guardian on Monday, point to stay-at-home moms who are trying to clean up after a two-year-old while folding laundry and planning dinner and call them “fascists” — or at least consider them the victims of age-old fascist propaganda.
You see, Donald Trump, like Hitler, “touts pronatalist rewards, such as a $1,000 government-funded investment account for new babies, and has discussed others, including a ‘National Medal of Motherhood’ for women with six children.” Women who fall for such pressure? They’re simply the unwitting slaves of the rising authoritarian regime that depends on them “to keep society stable and operational on a household level, framing regressive policies in more approachable and alluring terms.”
Calling Just About Everything Fascist Obfuscates Its Definition
Where does one even begin unraveling this mess? On one hand, there’s the egregious cheapening of the term “fascism.” On the other hand, the Guardian’s argument fails to take into account the many incredibly successful women in the MAGA movement who hardly practice (or preach) the “trad-wife” lifestyle. Then, of course, there’s the very simple fact that Matei has it all wrong. To be a stay-at-home mother isn’t some kind of primitive slavery; rather, in the words of C.S. Lewis, it’s the living out of “the ultimate career” for which all other careers exist.
The international socialists at the Grauniad view everything they don’t like as National Socialism, but is being a stay-at-home mom more or less fascist than someone who boasts about working out in his or her local gym?
I assume a stay-at-home mom who reads her kids epic poetry is really redlining the Godwin meter:
By last November, even Van Jones had noticed how crazy his party’s purity tests had become:
“If progressives have a politics that says all white people are racist, all men are toxic, and all billionaires are evil it’s kinda hard to keep them on your side. If you're chasing people out of the party, you can't be mad when they leave.”
— Van Jones
— The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole84) November 7, 2024