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.

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.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    301·
    8 months ago

    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@lemm.ee
      131·
      8 months ago

      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.”