To defend the indefensible, the fitting goes after white girls as race traitors.
Vice President JD Vance speaks throughout a information briefing within the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White Home on January 8, 2026.
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The killing of 37-year-old mom of three Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis final Wednesday has shocked the world and change into a political nightmare for the Trump administration.
The correct response to this horrific killing can be an unbiased and clear investigation. As an alternative, the Trump administration has chosen the trail of stonewalling, cover-up, and demonizing the sufferer—together with by making sexist and homophobic assaults in opposition to Good.
The Trump administration instantly went on the offensive. Vice President JD Vance denounced Good as a “deranged leftist” who created “a tragedy of her personal making.” Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem asserted that Good was a “home terrorist.” A New York Publish headline described Good as a “Warrior of the Left.”
It’ll shock no one that the federal government and its allies are blatantly mendacity about each Good and the circumstances of her demise.
Evaluation by The New York Occasions and others of the numerous movies taken of the capturing demonstrates that the White Home’s account is wholly at odds with the proof. Aside from the truth that capturing at a shifting automobile goes in opposition to standard guidelines for police conduct, the movies present that ICE brokers have been belligerent and unprofessional, and that Good herself was clearly making an attempt to de-escalate the state of affairs. Her final phrases were a comment to the officer who would quickly kill her: “I’m not mad at you.” After Good was shot, one ICE agent seems to have yelled out, “Fucking bitch.”
None of those info matter to the White Home and its MAGA outriders, although. The feedback by Noem and Vance have been dangerous sufficient, however they have been echoed by much more excessive language by pundits who fleshed out the concept that Good was harmful (and due to this fact responsible of her demise and maybe deserving of it). The demonization of Good had a powerful gender ingredient and centered on her private sexual id as a lesbian. These assaults additionally highlighted the truth that she was a white lady who sacrificed her life for non-white immigrants, with the implication that she was a race traitor.
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The assaults on Good are outstanding for his or her ugliness and derangement. A couple of main ones ought to be highlighted.
Erick Erickson, a radio host who has up to now been a commentator on CNN and Fox Information, tweeted, “An AWFUL (Prosperous White Feminine City Liberal) is lifeless after operating her automotive into an ICE agent who opened fireplace on her. Progressive whites are turning violent. ICE brokers have the fitting to defend themselves.”
Naomi Wolf, a onetime liberal who has change into more and more supportive of the far proper since her promotion of anti-vaxxing concepts in 2021, posted:
I’ve seen sufficient movies of the faces of liberal white girls in battle with @ICE, to know what’s up. Liberal males at this level (sorry) are disproportionately estrogenized, bodily passive, submissive attributable to woke gender hectoring, or porn-addicted. White liberal girls are disproportionately sexually annoyed. Policing others as within the pandemic was an outlet for them, but it surely was not practically sufficient. The grins you see on their faces now say all of it: white girls lengthy for all out fight with ICE – who are usually robust, bodily assured, masculine males – as a result of the battle is a type of bodily launch for them. They lengthy for precise kinetic battle and it’ll get even uglier.
It’s arduous to understand how to reply to Wolf’s screed. The concept that girls are made insane by a scarcity of heterosexual satisfaction is the kind of pseudo-science that was widespread within the mid-Twentieth century however which has been refuted by generations of feminist scholarship. Additional, the truth that Good was a lesbian makes Wolf’s evaluation absurd. To make sure, Wolf is infamous for her full disregard for scholarly requirements, a lot in order that her 2019 ebook Outrages was canceled by the publisher after it was proven that its core arguments rested on a deep misunderstanding of archival information.
Lauren Chen, a right-wing media entrepreneur who allegedly has been funded by a Russian media affect marketing campaign, posted, “This liberal lady was prepared to tackle federal brokers, to disrupt ICE operations, in an effort to shield felony Somalis.” In line with Chen, “such a considering is sort of wholly chargeable for the decline of Western civilization.” Matt Walsh, host of a podcast and common author for The Every day Wire, made the same point in much more repugnant phrases: “This lesbian agitator gave her life to guard 68 IQ Somali scammers who couldn’t give much less of a shit about her.”
Some have been puzzled by the truth that MAGA, a motion of white nationalism, is so fast to demonize white girls. However there is no such thing as a paradox right here. White nationalism is dependent upon a sure kind of white lady: somebody who’s “loyal” to the white race and compliant with patriarchy. The best white lady follows the traditional mannequin of barefoot and pregnant within the kitchen in addition to being obedient to a male husband.
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Renee Good didn’t comply with the MAGA superb on plenty of fronts, each as a lesbian and as an activist for immigrant rights. On their very own phrases, MAGA is correct to hate Good; she lived in defiance of their beliefs. However for almost all of people that aren’t MAGA, Good’s defiance of reactionary norms was admirable.
The truth that MAGA is so intent on demonizing Good exhibits that the protection of her killing rests on skinny ice. In spite of everything, if it have been clear-cut that Ross was performing in self-defense, any dialogue of Good’s character can be pointless. However exactly as a result of the proof doesn’t assist the self-defense narrative, MAGA is making an attempt to shore up assist by portraying Good as somebody who deserved to die. This defamation of a murdered lady is itself proof of the ethical depravity of MAGA.
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