"The right-wing propaganda machine works hard to instill fear in white women." [View all]

(Salon) The right-wing propaganda machine works hard to instill fear in white women. It’s replete with images of crime everywhere and warnings that immigrants are threats. The tragic killing of Renee Nicole Good on Jan. 7 and the Trump administration’s response to it have ripped away any remaining pretense: We are witnessing the implementation of a white nationalist agenda, sanctioned at the highest levels of power. Nearly one year since Trump’s second inauguration and Elon Musk’s infamous Nazi salute, white women, in particular, are refusing to play their assigned role as silent shock absorbers for state violence. The victim-blaming looks to have backfired on MAGA.

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This has been the central, animating principle of American conservatism for decades: redefining who belongs in the United States and undermining our pluralistic democracy. Vice President JD Vance has been the most explicit member of the administration about this. In a speech last summer, he declared: “America is not just an idea. We’re a particular place with a particular people and a particular set of beliefs and way of life.” He praised so-called “Heritage Americans” for taming “a wild continent.” At a White House briefing after Good’s killing, Vance alleged without evidence that she was part of a “broader left-wing network” plotting to attack federal agents.

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Since Good’s killing, the right has also amplified its rhetoric that frames liberal white women as traitors and the reason the country is in chaos. Fox News’ Jesse Watters suggested that “a lot of these women are single so you have this instinctive motherhood that’s really not been able to be expressed, so they are trying to wrap their arms around the immigrant community.”

White women like Good are not just dissenters within the racial in-group, however, they are proof that the entire white nationalist story about inheritance and destiny is unstable. Still, MAGA plows on. Elon Musk went on a racist tirade on his X platform the same week Good was killed, retweeting a post that declared: “If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while White men hold a collective majority, then they will be 1000x times more hostile and cruel when they are a majority over whites. White solidarity is the only way to survive.” Musk added a “100” emoji, signaling complete agreement. .....................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2026/01/14/white-women-get-in-the-way-of-trumps-war-on-civil-rights/