1067 - Bride of DataRepublican feat. David J. Roth (8/31/26)(Chapo Trap House )Chapo All-Star David Roth returns for a survey of the right-wing influencers running the government: DataRepublican, MomOfDataRepublican, InfantryDort, all of the stars are here! We also check in on another round of liberal struggle sessions about Hasan, and the deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos by the cowardess Laura Loomer.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/1067-bride-of-datarepublicanGloria Steinem Was the Godmother of Neoliberal FeminismGloria Steinem, the establishment’s favorite radical feminist, died on September 2. The mainstream media has gone all out in praising her, with the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times united in their adulation. The Times called her the “personification of the women’s movement” and credited her with helping to usher in “sweeping cultural transformations across virtually every facet of American life, from the boardroom to the courtroom to the bedroom.” They approvingly quote her self-description as an “entrepreneur of social change.” For many people, she is the only radical feminist they can name, eclipsing the extraordinary women who planned and launched the successful women’s liberation movement starting in 1967. Steinem did wield enormous influence. Ms. magazine and the Ms. Foundation for Women, which she cofounded, came to define what was worthy in the feminist project. But to the women’s liberation pioneers she displaced, this meant silencing the radicals and promoting the anodyne. When Steinem described Ms. as “a kind of connective tissue for women all across this country who felt isolated until we came along and let them know they were not alone,” feminist pioneers saw Steinem as taking credit for work already done by the movement. The women’s liberation movement didn’t need Ms. to publicize it. It had already been on the front page of nearly every mass circulation magazine and had produced ten mass-market anthologies by 1971, selling millions of copies. The movement published one hundred small newspapers and journals, including Off Our Backs, It Ain’t Me Babe, and Woman’s World. And it had already won substantial victories by the time Steinem emerged on the scene. Thousands of working-class women were suing employers for sex disc
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