The shooting death of Renee Nicole Good hit home with middle-class white women, who were seen as "politically complacent" in Donald Trump's era.
No more, writes Virginia Heffernan at The New Republic.
YouTube host Matt Bernstein welcomed southern podcaster Jennifer Welch who explained that "middle-aged" women like herself and her cohost Angie Sullivan are "FoxNews-coded" and making people uncomfortable as leftists in Fox's clothing.
Their podcast I've Had It showcases Bernstein's observation that “The Liberal Wine Moms are Radicalizing." Heffernan compares them to the late Ann Richards, a former Texas governor who took on George W. Bush and the far-right along with him.
"They have millions of followers on TikTok and YouTube, and their show is often at the very top of Apple Podcast ratings," observed Heffernan.
The author said that white women will never live down the stigma that their demographic supported President Donald Trump in three elections. They're well represented standing beside him as "ICE Barbies, trad wives, MAHA mothers, racist Karens and anti-feminist belles."
The popular Black social media creator Iyoncé said that the women have a kind of MAGA aura about them while signaling they're "safe" antifascist allies hiding in plain sight.
"It’s no wonder MAGA Megyn Kelly is set off by fellow white women like Poehler; her book-club manner conceals liberal commitments, making her a traitor to the master-race ladies’ auxiliary club," writes Heffernan.
She notes even Tucker Carlson discovered them years ago, saying, “The archetype of the person that I don’t like is a 38-year-old female white lawyer."
He added, “I hate you.”
Watching one of their own, Good, be shot three times by an ICE officer before calling her a "f—— b——" helped spark the growing powder keg.
"The paranoid and spiraling Trump administration" is now trying to paint these wine moms as domestic terrorists and Good was one of them.
Heffernan cited far-right Fox columnist David Marcus, who wrote after Good's death, “What we are seeing across the country [is] organized gangs of wine moms [who] use antifa tactics.”
"So now Fox News is framing a majority of white women as terrorists," Heffernan writes, dripping with sarcasm. "Perhaps one day an ICE officer will be asked in a hearing where exactly the wine-mom gangsters were headquartered; what their training consisted of; where their WMDs were; and just how dangerous they were such that they merited being preemptively murdered for attending a protest."