Moms for What?
Re-sharing some relevant posts in honor of Moms for Liberty's big Fourth of July media weekend.
Evidently, journalists across the country learned who Moms for Liberty are (or at least who they claim to be) over the past week or so. Apparently the way to be taken seriously by some in the media is to quote Hitler, then apologize for it, then un-apologize for it, then have a big conference where you compare yourself to the American revolution because you harassed and threatened schools about masks and built an entire identity around transphobic conspiracy theories.
Much of the recent wide coverage of the group seems to buy, without too much in the way of analysis or fact-checking the idea that this is a “grassroots” group of “moms” who somehow represent popular and politically-influential “parent” values. Instead, it seems clear that the group is headed by a handful of shrewd, connected, and well-resourced political operatives (who are funded by the exact kind of dark money the group commonly attributes to George Soros-funded “Leftists” who they want us to image are “indoctrinati…
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