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Some conservative women who were prominent figures in the Republican Party in the past — columnist and former Nancy Reagan speechwriter Mona Charen, conservative pollster and organizer Sarah Longwell, former Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Virginia), among many others — now feel estranged from conservatism and are firmly in the Never Trump camp. But their absence from the center of the GOP and much of the right-wing media is giving MAGA women an opening on the far right.

In an article published on January 28, The Guardian's Alaina Demopoulos takes a look at some mothers who have become prominent MAGA influencers: Riley Gaines and Allie Beth Stuckey. And one of their talking points is that "compassion" and "empathy" detrimental to the MAGA movement and to fundamentalist evangelical Christianity.

Demopoulos' article comes at a time when Minneapolis and other U.S. cities are being targeted by the Trump Administration for aggressive immigration raids. And Gaines and Stuckey, according to the Guardian journalist, are saying that compassion must not be allowed to distract MAGA from its goals.

"Gaines is one of the leading figures of the 'Womanosphere' movement: mostly white Christian conservatives who promote an anti-feminist, gender-essentialist agenda to their followers, and who have been parroting the Trump Administration's messaging that ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has done a good, moral job in its brutal crackdown on immigrant communities," Demopoulos explains. "Any evidence proving otherwise is wrong, warped or fabricated, they insist…. Allie Beth Stuckey, a conservative podcaster and author, is another such figure beating the drum for ICE."

Stuckey is the author of the 2024 book "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion." And the argument that "compassion" and "empathy" are bad, according to Demopoulos, is a recurring theme from Stuckey and others in the Womansphere.

According to former evangelical April Ajoy, a demand for ideological purity is another characteristic of the 'Womanosphere'.

Ajoy told The Guardian, "If you are not fully in line with every single position (that Womanosphere figures promote), then you can get ostracized from your community. That’s what happened to me."

*Read Alaina Demopoulos's full article for The Guardian at this link.

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Fox News hosts are suggesting that President Donald Trump is just an average guy.

In a segment on the cable network’s “Outnumbered” on Wednesday, co-host Harris Faulkner told her colleagues, “it’s ironic, though, but he’s not really all that different.”

Faulkner then sought to portray Trump — a billionaire real estate developer who owns multiple golf courses and the Mar-a-Lago resort — as relatable, describing him as “just a guy’s guy” and “not really all that different” from ordinary Americans.

“He loves McDonald’s,” she said.

“He likes to hang.”

“He loves his family.”

“And kind of, like, not that McDonald’s is poor to being, like, an all American, but I think it is — love those fries,” Faulkner remarked.

“But, I mean, he’s all those things that you don’t have to have a billion dollars or have to have zero dollars to get,” she exclaimed. “He’s just a guy’s guy.”

Faulkner went on to say that Trump “respects women.”

“He’s hired a lot of tremendously talented women — we’ve met them.”

“My dad,” she added, “used to say, the test of a man is how he treats the women in his life.”

“Can he be that alpha, and be loving, and generous, and all those things?”

Co-host Riley Gaines added, “They called him a misogynist but really he’s the worst misogynist, ever.”

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  1. ### Riley Gaines says Maine or California need “to be made an example of” for allowing trans athletes to compete

06/24/25

https://www.mediamatters.org/crime-and-criminal-justice/bomb-threat-and-hate-speech-against-library-follow-targeted-harassment

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bomb threat and hate speech against library follow targeted harassment from Riley Gaines and other right-wing media figures

After Gaines and other conservative figures spread outrage over the library’s handling of hate speech, a bomb threat forced the branch and a nearby elementary school to evacuate

WRITTEN BY MIA GINGERICH

RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ALYSSA TIRRELL

PUBLISHED 08/23/23

On August 21, an anonymous caller directed a bomb threat that included anti-LGBTQ hate speech against a library in Davis, California, forcing the library and a nearby elementary school to evacuate. The threat came amid a harassment campaign against the location led by Riley Gaines and other members of right-wing media who have spent the last year driving similar threats against schools and children’s hospitals. 

The day before the threat was made against the library, the Yolo County chapter of Moms for Liberty — an anti-civil rights and anti-LGBTQ group whose members have been linked to numerous instances of threats and harassment — hosted an event there criticizing trans inclusion in sports. During the event, complaints from audience members led library staff to warn speakers that misgendering athletes breaks the library’s code of conduct. When speakers continued misgendering trans athletes, a staff member asked them to leave. 

That evening, local conservative anti-lockdown activist Jonathan Zachreson posted his account of what had happened on X (formerly known as Twitter) alongside a flier for the event featuring the library’s name and location. A few hours later, anti-LGBTQ group California Family Council posted a video of the altercation on X.

Anti-trans activist Riley Gaineswas one of the first accounts with a major following to quote-tweet the video. Her initial tweet came just before 9 a.m. ET and requested the librarian’s name and phone number, adding, “We need silent majority to do its thing.” Minutes later she sent a follow-up tweet with the library’s contact information, instructions on how to reach a staff member, and an urge for “everyone [to] call” followed by four exclamation points. This call to action went out to her more than 700,000 followers.

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Replies to Gaines’ tweet show people followed Gaines' instruction, calling the library until the phone number was apparently disconnected. Other replies included anti-trans rhetoric, comments comparing the library staff to the Gestapo, and attempts to identify specific staff members at the library. At least one commenter posted a link to what appeared to be the personal Facebook page of a person they claimed worked at the location.

Gaines, who previously helped drive harassment against high school athletes who were forced to drop out of competition out of fear for their well-being, was soon followed by the larger right-wing media apparatus, including Libs of TikTok, which has a history of directing fans to harass LGBTQ people and their allies.

By the time police sent out an alert in reaction to the bomb threat just before 3 p.m., some large right-wing outlets and blogs had already published articles on the story.Fox News posted an article headlined “Riley Gaines slams men trying to 'silence' ex-college athlete at California library event” less than two hours after Gaines posted her initial tweet on the matter. OutKick, Timcast, and the Washington Examiner — outlets with long histories of anti-LGBTQ animus — all published articles before the bomb threat was reported. Gaines was cited in all three.

The harassment and threats made against the Davis library come on the heels of a yearlong push by right-wing media and politicians to demonize public libraries and the people who staff them. The Davis incident represents the latest chapter in right-wing media’s effort to utilize social media to drive harassment campaigns against those they frame as their political enemies. Widespread harassment of children’s hospitals that provide gender-affirming care for trans youth by figures including Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik and The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh culminated last year in multiple bomb threats made against Boston Children’s Hospital. Those who helped drive the harassment were rewarded with prime-time appearances on Fox News. 

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