“The messaging is definitely propaganda,” said Ronnee Schreiber, a political professor at San Diego State University, “because the messaging is tied to Trump and his political goals.” And pregnancies, Schreiber said, offer these women an “edge”, signaling embodiment of the right’s pronatalist pressure campaign in a way that other acolytes just can’t pull off.
Birthrates in the US continue to plummet. Yet in their pregnancy promotion, these Maga moms betray little curiosity as to why some women are prioritizing careers over kids, or why some households are buckling under the soaring costs of daily American life.
“We’re a big country. We have 50 states, and we have all these other people. We’re fighting wars,” Donald Trump said at a closed-door Easter lunch. “We can’t take care of daycare.”
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