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Candace Owen's certainly has carved out a very lucrative and successful place in the MAGA universe. Her secret isn't a secret though and I am not sure she has "normies" for an audience, as it's quite clear she is in MAGA camp. She is not pretending to be a nice neighborly lady who sucks you with homemade bread and lemonade and then gently lures you into believing transgender people are mentally deranged gay men. I kinda feel like you have to already believe that something is wrong with transgendered people...and then her POV confirms that belief.

She to me falls in line with a "broken clock is right twice a day" idea. The problem with "conservative thoughts" as she espouses isn't that it all wrong or foolish. It is that it takes sentiments that can be agreed to like "embrace your natural beauty" and adds on the cruelty...embrace your natural beauty..unless you are overweight, or it involves wearing clothes not assigned to your birth gender". These positive affirmations are always conditional..women are blessed by God...until she does something ungodly like choosing not having children, or doesnt dress to please her husband, Then she is a demon sent from hell to corrupt little children.

What's amazing to me about people like her is that much of what she does...being in an interracial marriage, working outside the home, taking a podcast job away from a man,...would have her being in the "MAGA enemy camp" easily (in this sense how does she differ from say Megan Markle? Her husband isn't a prince but he is not a pauper) but for the fact she is willing to use her platform to keep others (black people and transwomen) in line. She is the very definition of a token....and IMO normies don't usually follow tokens or cult leaders.which is what makes them a normie.

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