The other day, Media Matters spread a story about how the grassroots group Moms for Liberty had “quoted Hitler” in its local Indiana newsletter. That sounds really bad, right? The smear was, naturally, picked up by automatons at virtually every major news outlet whose job seems to be giving political oppo hits a patina of journalistic credibility.
While one expects the con artists at the Lincoln Project to latch on to this sort of hit, we don’t expect conservatism’s most celebrated hall monitor to do so. Yet, there was New York Times columnist David French affirmatively quote-tweeting a user who not only shared a video clip of a speaker at a Moms of Liberty conference defending the Indiana moms, but also called their outlook “Christofascism.”
It’s difficult to believe any sentient human really believes that a gaggle of suburban moms — who oppose books celebrating gender dysphoria being read by elementary school-aged kids — are readying for the next Beer Hall Putsch. Then again, the people who cynically spread this kind of smear rely on the credulousness of paranoid Trump-obsessed Democrats. You know what Stalin probably said: “Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.”
The smear makes literally zero sense. The quote in question — “He alone who owns the youth gains the future” – was used to hyperbolically compare the outlook of Hitler with Joe Biden and other Democrats. Similar framing, though perhaps distasteful, is well within the norms of American political
