Now Even Stay-At-Home Moms are Fascist

You could, for instance, claim that the Federal Communications Commission is really just the punishing arm of a fascist government when it suggests that maybe late-night show hosts should try not to peddle obvious lies.

Or, you might insist that Sunday’s faith-filled and inspiring memorial for Charlie Kirk was really just “NOT-C PROPAGANDA,” as D.L. Hughley, a former CNN commentator, two-time New York Times bestselling author, and self-proclaimed comedian, did on Instagram. After all, Stephen Miller sounded an awful lot like Adolf Hitler’s chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, and the conservative response to Kirk’s death looks an awful lot like the Nazi response to the killing of Horst Wessel in 1930. (READ MORE: The SPLC and the Radicalization of Charlie Kirk’s Killer)

Then again, you could take an entirely different tack. You could, as Adrienne Matei did in the pages of the Guardian on Monday, point to stay-at-home moms who are trying to clean up after a two-year-old while folding laundry and planning dinner and call them “fascists” — or at least consider them the victims of age-old fascist propaganda.

You see, Donald Trump, like Hitler, “touts pronatalist rewards, such as a $1,000 government-funded investment account for new babies, and has discussed others, including a ‘National Medal of Motherhood’ for women with six children.” Women who fall for such pressure? They’re simply the unwitting slaves of the rising authoritarian regime that depends on them “to keep society stable and operational on a household level, framing regressive policies in more approachable and alluring terms.”