Erisian on The Bulwark

[Erisian]

"Allie Beth Stuckey, a conservative commentator, posted on X Friday morning that Britt had genuine appeal in coming across like "the moms at the school drop off" and praised the kitchen setting." https://www.thedailybeast.com/official-katie-britt-gop-response-to-state-of-the-union-has-republicans-losing-it (link from following the link in the story)

Besides a performance worthy of any high school theatrical production, the optics that Ms Britt might have been going for was a supreme mistake, at least imo. ""[T]he moms at the school drop off" line by Allie Beth Stuckey just added to the damage Britt's setting already created.

In a party known for the misogyny on display, delivering her rebuttal from the kitchen inspired thoughts of "barefoot and pregnant" as a New GOP goal. The view of a woman in her kitchen also reinforces the concept that "a woman's place is in the home" and not in business, politics or any place else that the sexist RINOs deem inappropriate.

Let me add that even though I'm well beyond the age for sitting in a school drop-off line, those I knew back then, as well as some I know today, had very little in common with a MAGAdroid politician. Those moms and dads concerns were that their children get a well-rounded education that would help prepare them for their future, and felt the same as a vast majority did in that earlier epoch in American history. They didn't concern themselves with what other parents allowed their children to read, nor did they object to the kids being exposed to ways of thought and self-expression by the LGBTQIA+ people, POC and feminists (at that time TERFs didn't exist); this was much less about "indoctrination" as it was to develop a more well-rounded and compassionate adult.

We all have to work together to excise the autocratic asshats in Congress if we wish to return to the path we were on ten years ago; before MAGA and after the Tea Party was rejected -- at least in part.

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