A Fox News commentator’s warning that “organized gangs of wine moms” are deploying “antifa tactics” against ICE agents has become the latest object of ridicule — and alarm — as the right searches for villains in the wake of the ICE killing of Renee Good. New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg mocked the panic as a transparent attempt to invent a new terrorist menace to justify the Trump administration’s increasingly unpopular crackdown in Minneapolis, arguing that conservative media has pivoted its rage toward liberal women with a familiar mix of misogyny and authoritarian reflexes. In Goldberg’s telling, the sudden fixation on “wine moms” isn’t about public safety — it’s about putting women back in their place.
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