A hot take by a Fox News columnist who raised the alarm about the looming danger of "wine moms" after the shooting death of 37-year-old Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis was greeted with amusement by the New York Times' Michelle Goldberg on Friday.
In a column written by Dave Marcus posted to the Fox News website earlier in the week, he made the jump to suggest that so-called “antifa tactics” are being deployed across the country by “organized gangs of wine moms” to harass ICE agents who have snatched people off the street.
According to the distressed Marcus, “... we need to ask ourselves, quite seriously, if groups of people training and then executing missions that put law enforcement and the public in harm's way may, in fact, be criminal conspiracies.”
Goldberg rolled her eyes at Marcus's “wine mom” conspiracy by labeling it as a “new danger stalking our besieged country,” with tongue placed firmly in cheek.
She continued by noting that hard-right website PJ Media heeded the Fox News call and called the wine mom gangs the “greatest threat to our nation,” made up of a “group of unindicted domestic terrorists ’who are just AWFL: Affluent White Liberal Women,” with the NYT columnist observing, “The acronym is wrong, but never mind.”
Taking it all in, she wrote, “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.”
According to the NYT journalist, the Trump administration and its enablers are desperately in need of “a terrorist threat to justify their increasingly unpopular siege of Minneapolis,” and women, like the late Good, have become a new front to be dealt with in the battle to regain public trust.
Returning to the Fox News panic, Goldberg wrote, “In the right-wing imagination, these women are acting like harpies — an epithet often seen online — when they’re supposed to be helpmeets. Fox News’s Will Cain described a ‘weird kind of smugness’ in the way ‘some of these liberal white women interact with authority.’”
“For MAGA, ICE’s eagerness to put women in their place might be a feature, not a bug,” she suggested.
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