If you read conservative media, you might have heard about a new danger stalking our besieged country.

This week, Fox News warned about "organized gangs of wine moms" using "antifa tactics" against ICE. According to a column in the right-wing PJ Media, the "greatest threat to our nation" is a "group of 'unindicted domestic terrorists' who are just AWFL: Affluent White Liberal Women." (The acronym is wrong, but never mind.)

Canadian influencer Lauren Chen--who had to leave the United States in 2024 after the Department of Justice accused her of working for a Russian propaganda operation, but was allowed back in by the Trump administration--wrote that the ideology of women like Renee Good is "almost wholly responsible for the decline of Western civilization."

It's as if the right is speed-running the Martin Niemöller poem that begins, "First they came for the Communists." ICE's invasion of Minneapolis started with the demonization of Somali immigrants. It took only weeks for conservative demagogues to direct their venom toward the middle-class women of the Resistance. We're now seeing an outpouring of misogynist rage driven by both political expedience and psychosexual grievance.

One reason Renee Good's death was such a shock is that we're not used to seeing law enforcement violence against middle-class white mothers. The citizenry has........

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