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The Feminist Temptation Lurking On The Right
The “MAGA movement” is sometimes confused for a conservative movement. But “Make America Great Again” is only a goal. When was America great? From roughly 1776 to 1965? If that’s the case, which model of American greatness should we strive towards? Or must we chart new territory?
Simply put: Does MAGA want to return or progress? No one quite knows. See: The Woman Question.
Men and women are different. You’ll find broad agreement with that statement from self-proclaimed MAGAs, conservatives, right-wingers, and Republicans. The trouble comes with writing prescriptions based on sex-differences. On this question, answers from the right vary wildly. As do the stated and revealed preferences espoused by individuals.
The stated preference of many a female anti-feminist is: “Women belong in the home.” The revealed preference of many of those same women is a high-powered career in politics that, by necessity, deprioritizes family formation.
President Donald Trump has appointed more women to his cabinet than any Republican president before him. Some unmarried, some childless.
So much for Trump literally ripping his presidential policy out of “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
Nor does Trump’s personal life reveal a distaste for career women. Donald Trump married Melania Trump, a successful international model and businesswoman, when she was 34. The couple welcomed one child, Barron Trump, when Melania was 35.
I won’t opine too much (here) on the merits or disadvantages of women in the workplace. I will argue that MAGA lacks clarity of vision when it comes to women.
“Gender” versus “sex” is a semi-false distinction, one usually made to advance the cause of transgenderism. But it is useful to have a word (gender) which describes the traditional duties that emerge from one’s natal sex. These duties are similar cross-culturally. For a woman, they tend to include cooking, childrearing, homemaking. For a man, they tend to include breadwinning, offering protection, and varying degrees of investment in childrearing.
Enter: Civilization. Grocery stores. Hired help and iPads and Roombas. A non-Amish woman no longer has to spend her free time churning butter. Note that upper-class women have enjoyed such privileges for a long time, outsourcing the upkeep of their home to maids and nannies. Even childbearing is optional for wealthy women, with the advent of surrogacy.
So-called “trad wives” respond to this technologization by pretending it didn’t happen. (Except for the part where they record their daily routine for TikTok.) It’s a LARP, sure, but one born out of a desire to return to a time when women had a defined and cherished purpose.
Feminism, too, is partly a reaction to technological innovation. When technology renders certain sex-specific duties redundant, one understandably looks for new duties. One might even come to believe that men and women are identical, but for superficial differences exploited by society.
There’s one stumbling block in our race to render ourselves redundant: love. Companionship is a different matter and many prefer to get theirs via screen. But a mother’s love and attention, particularly in critical periods of development, can’t be outsourced.
MAGA has failed to muster any coherent response to the question of female purpose and duty. Feminism is usually (and rightly) lumped in with the left’s menagerie of ills: DEI, land acknowledgements, golden casket funerals for fentanyl users.
And MAGA has aligned itself with family formation. Or pronatalism, at least.
“Our people aren’t having enough children to replace themselves. That should bother us,” now-Vice President JD Vance said to a crowd in 2019.
“We want babies not just because they are economically useful. We want more babies because children are good. And we believe children are good, because we are not sociopaths.”
Nonprofit Turning Point USA promotes a similar agenda.