We’re watching huge swathes of our fellow humans be attacked in the streets, arrested and otherwise harassed by the federal government’s police force. The assault on DEI is a thinly veiled racist attack on people of color by a group of white men and the women who love them.

But maybe those white women should stop and think a little bit about that. Michelle Goldberg wrote about the rebellion among congressional GOP women that shows there is some chafing among the female enablers. Leopards are starting to nibble on their faces:

Recently several Republican congresswomen have been complaining, on and off the record, that their party’s leaders, especially Mike Johnson, the House speaker, don’t take them seriously. It started with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a onetime MAGA icon who is resigning next month. “They want women just to go along with whatever they’re doing and basically to stand there, smile and clap with approval, whereas they just have their good old boys club,” she said in September. It turns out she’s not alone in her frustration.

Last week, The Times reported on Republican women in Congress who say that Johnson “failed to listen to them or engage in direct conversations on major political and policy issues,” which they seemed to attribute to his highly patriarchal evangelical Christianity. (He recently said that women, unlike men, are unable to “compartmentalize” their thoughts.)

Media Matters has an excellent report ~on where the GOP is going with women’s rights and it is horrifying. We all know the Heritage Foundation has gone completely over the MAGA, white nationalist cliff. And it’s getting worse:

Heritage has now brought on Boise State University professor and anti-feminist crusader Scott Yenor to head up its B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies. As conservative pundit Henry Olsen notes at The Atlantic, the decision “poses serious questions about the institution’s beliefs concerning the equality of women in the workplace and perhaps even as citizens.”

New Heritage hire pushes birth control restrictions and rollbacks to the Civil Rights Act

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It sounds ridiculous. But these people are extremists and they are accumulating power. If they could achieve even a small bit of this grotesque agenda, women will be much worse off.

It would be very foolish to assume this could never happen. They play a long game.

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