Moms for Liberty Is Slowly Imploding, and That’s Bad for MAGA in 2024

With Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler embroiled in scandal, the group is now on the defensive—and that will hurt Republicans in this fall’s elections.

Moms for Liberty has fallen on hard times. Membership is dwindling in some precincts, and its school board candidates are on a losing streak. Co-founder Bridget Ziegler is embroiled in a sex scandal involving her husband, former Florida GOP Chair Christian Ziegler, and parents are running brutal ads attacking her. We chatted with journalist Jennifer Berkshire, the author of a forthcoming book on battles over education, who explains the bigger story here: The right is now on the defensive in the culture wars.

Suavevillain,
@Suavevillain@lemmy.world avatar

Klan Karenhood in the mud. That is good news.

onewaymars,

still waiting for the sauce sadge

Postreader2814,

I’m really surprised this many republicunts we’re able to work this closely together for so long without eating each other sooner.

JimSamtanko,

As if GOP voting relied on their existence.

mavu,

what is this? good news monday?

RamblingPanda,

On my mobile device the headline in the list view was cut off like

Moms for Liberty Is Slowly Imploding, and That’s Bad

And I had a hard time understanding how that could be a bad thing.

Socsa,

Maybe it’s happening quickly enough that they aren’t suffering very much?

RamblingPanda,

I’m sure they’ll take it like a champ.

Introversion,

Cue tiny violins.

RampantParanoia2365,

🎻

Jaysyn,
Jaysyn avatar

Moms for Thievery, more like.

Hyperreality,

There's a small part of me that hopes this election will actually be less close than the media are portraying it to be, because they have a motive to keep people watching and less people will watch if they think it isn't close, and because their coverage suggests it'll be close this will hopefully ensure high turnout among anti-Trump voters.

Although the polling doesn't look great. (And I say this as someone who knows about confidence intervals, margins of error, and weighting)

gravitas_deficiency,

Or, as I like to refer to them: KarenPAC

ghostpony,

Hoes for Hitler

Youthless,

Clanned Karenhood

ptz,
@ptz@dubvee.org avatar

Klanned Karenhood, but yeah.

massive_bereavement,
massive_bereavement avatar

What does the last K stand for?

kmartburrito,

Kowtowing Klanned Karenhood

Gork,

Ku Klux Klanned Karenhood

There’s an extra K in there because it’s trendy. Ubisoft released the first AAAA game, so the white supremacists gotta one-up it.

samus12345,
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Krusty’s Komedy Klassics

Badeendje,
@Badeendje@lemmy.world avatar

Nice

xmunk,

Gosh I feel for them… if only they imploded quickly and dramatically… and maybe there could be a significant enough scandal that most of them could end up in prison.

That’s the karma these fucks deserve.

Spitzspot,
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Thoughts and prayers

minibyte,

What’s bad for MAGA is best for America.

UnderpantsWeevil,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

I mean, I want to believe. But these pop-up shops have always been disposable. Moms for Liberty. Project Veritas. Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. They aren’t built to last. Their staff will be recycled into the next astroturfed group, be it “Concerned Uncles Noticing Terrorists”, “Freedom Advocate Rights Technicians”, or “Grandmothers Overseeing All Temporary State Enforced Xenophobia”.

And they’ll get a dozen Op-Eds in your national news org of note, because Harlan Crow knows which Ombudsman needs a new RV.

achance4cheese,

That last one lol, G.O.A.T.S.E.X. Your creativity is wonderful!

ZoopZeZoop,

And the rest of the world, more likely than not.

cmbabul,

It’s actually way more of a sure thing than that, Trump winning in November pretty much signs the death warrant for virtually any climate change mitigation initiative. And while nuclear war is a very real possibility either way it’s clearly lower under the least impulsive of the two options

Nudding,

I think the US breaking its own oil production record was the death warrant.

MossBear,

Very much more likely I dare say.

DogPeePoo,

Moms with STD’s

xmunk,

Ad hominem attacks are weak and lazy when there are such great things to legitimately criticize them about.

DogPeePoo,

Then do it

mindbleach,

“I was not calling you a douchebag to diminish your argument. I was calling you a douchebag.”

ZoopZeZoop,

I know a mom with an STD. She’s a good person and good mother, moreover she opposes MfL entirely. Let’s not shame people for things that don’t reflect on their poor character.

DogPeePoo, (edited )

Let’s?

Respectfully, I am an individual who is not seeking an editor.

The transference and personalization of my quip aimed at Mom’s for Liberty to your friend is a crazy stretch, like your friend probably.

ABCDE,

With your use of apostrophes to pluralise you probably need one.

DogPeePoo,

let’s:

contraction

let us.

“let’s meet for a drink sometime”

(It’s a contraction — my grammar is correct)

ABCDE,

“STD’s”. And “IPO’s” in your other post.

ripcord,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

And “Mom’s”

slurpeesoforion,

It’s been two hours. Should we tell him?

ABCDE,

Tell me, please.

slurpeesoforion,

Not you. The troll.

ripcord,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

Tell him what, that he’s right…?

Fal,
@Fal@yiffit.net avatar

No one cares what you’re seeking

Rentlar,

Moms for Baby-rearing slavery? With the various Christian Evangelist Fundamentalist “wins” in the last few years, hopefully it gets clearer and clearer that these issues are increasingly difficult to de-couple from the current Republican Party.

misspacfic,

the current republican party is full of christian nationalist money.

so, yeah, it may need to be destroyed and split into a “here’s where you christians can spew out your domination propaganda” and “here’s actual conservatism with room for compromise.”

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