Casual Misogyny

 Paul Campos does a good job breaking down the disparate strands of various white supremacist ideology that can safely be said to constitute the bedrock beliefs of the modern GOP. It starts with White Christian Nationalism, then proceeds to see how America is becoming a more diverse nation under the racist "Great Replacement" Theory. This exists not as a demographic fact but as a vast conspiracy. 

At the root of this conspiracy is women's autonomy. By allowing women (fundamentally White women) to decide when to have children or whether to have a career outside the home, women's autonomy threatens the White birthrate, and therefore is part of the vast conspiracy.

I should note that white women are an active part of this denial of women's agency, sometimes unwittingly. But there is a strain of Christian women who argue that they should be subservient to their husband. There is also a strain of thought that is riddled with racism about which women should be banned from certain choices.

America is undergoing some of its ongoing reckoning over race. That discussion and process has been somewhat successfully attacked by the GOP over nebulous terms like CRT. 

What we haven't adequately done - though I think the Dobbs decision will blow this open - is discuss the underlying misogyny that informs so much of rightist thought today. All these odd paeans to embattled masculinity are part of a broad panic by some men because many of the old male prerogatives are under siege.  This works hand-in-glove with the panic over the loss of privileged status for whites. 

Grievance is all they have, and this grievance is easily turned towards authoritarian political models. We've seen it most clearly in Hungary. It is being tried in Florida, Texas and elsewhere as we speak.

It's bad.