Radicalized Left-Wing Woman Fatigue
In January, a librarian in Ripley, West Virginia, was arrested. One Morgan L. Morrow, 39, according to the New York Post, had been “trying to recruit people on social media to assassinate President Trump.” Making her pitch on TikTok she stated, “Surely a sniper with a terminal illness can’t be a big ask out of 343 million?”
Oh, my. Whatever happened to those stern and proper librarians of yesteryear, the protectresses of my bookworm’s sacred grove, stalking the stacks as they enforced the library’s blessed code of silence?
Morrow, as it happens, is just one example—albeit a startling one—of the ongoing radicalization of middle-class white women afflicting American life of late.
As Claire Lehmann noted last year on her Substack, “Whether the cause is Gaza, climate change, Black Lives Matter, or feminism, overrepresentation of young women has become the norm in progressive activism. And this shift signals a susceptibility to ideological extremism.” Drawing on Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Foundations Theory, which suggests that women are especially motivated by the qualities of care, fairness, and purity, Lehmann argues that they are also the ideal target group for those who wish to generate indignation and moral fervor for the “victims” of our reputedly racist, sexist, and homo/transphobic culture.
Sympathy for perceived victims is more easily aroused in women (especially via social media) than in men—no surprise there. But what is especially interesting in Lehmann’s analysis is that she notes women in groups are more likely to demand moral purity—that is, conformity to the prevailing group view. In short, women involved in radical political movements are far more likely than men to succumb to peer pressure out of a fear of social exclusion.
Lehmann’s take on these matters is persuasive. That it focuses primarily on leftist radicalization is a point in its favor, since commentary on female radicalization in recent years has been obsessively concerned with right wing women who become involved in “neofascist” or identitarian groups—even though the numbers of such women are miniscule.
Lehmann’s argument assumes, at least implicitly, that women are, well, different somehow, that they possess qualities that are uniquely feminine. After several generations of feminist indoctrination, women are still nurturers, but that their nurturing instincts are now … bent.
Consider the case of Renée Good, shot by an ICE- agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7 after attempting to run him down with her car. Good, we are informed ad nauseum in the media, was a nurturing mother of three children and, like any traditional mother, involved in her youngest child’s school. But in their efforts to drape Good in the robes of martyrdom, reporters generally elide some relevant facts.
Good was married (to use the term loosely) three times; her first marriage ended in divorce; the second ended when her husband died. What Good’s politics may have been in those years, no one has bothered to explore. But within four months after her second husband’s death, she had met and partnered with a lesbian named Rebecca Good, known as Becca. Little is known about Becca, except that she owned a maintenance and home repair business in Kansas licensed as B. Good Handywork LLC. Was Renée radicalized by Becca? No answer to that question has been offered, but the Justice Department has repeatedly called for an investigation into Becca’s involvement in the demonstration that led to the shooting—an investigation stymied by the resignations of at least six federal prosecutors in the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s office, according to a report in Newsweek.
Another relevant point ignored by Good’s fans is that her involvement in her children’s education took place at a Minneapolis school, the Southside Family Charter School, widely known as a breeding ground for leftist activism. According to the Dallas Express, the school seeks not simply to educate ethnically diverse children but to “involve [them] in political and social activism.”
That the Goods were rabid anti-Trumpers is evidenced by the fact that shortly after his 2024 election they fled to Canada to escape the “fascist cloud” that was descending upon America. But apparently, they couldn’t find much satisfaction in Canada—where there was little or nothing for a leftist to resist. Did they feel socially excluded when so many thousands of their middle-class sisters back in the States were flooding the streets and impeding lawful attempts by ICE agents to detain illegal aliens? Perhaps so. In any event, they settled in Southside Minneapolis and soon became deeply involved in a radical anti-ICE group known as “Community of Service,” an organization devoted not only to street-level protests but to tracking the movements of ICE agents.
Let it be noted that Community of Service directors and organizers are themselves primarily well-educated middle or upper-middle-class women, including Deb Barker, a Waltz appointed member of the Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities; Kathyrn Tabke, a schoolteacher; and Misty Van Voorst, a minister.
Those who doubt that organizations like Community of Service or ICE Watch and similar groups across the country have violent tendencies should consider that over the course of 2025, vehicular attacks against ICE agents rose by over 3,000 percent (that is, a total of 66 recorded attacks by comparison to two in 2024).
Whether the Goods conspired to eliminate an ICE agent or not, it seems reasonable to suggest that their involvement in radical activism provided them with a transcendent sense of purpose. Motherhood, apparently, wasn’t enough. It was a feminist adage of the 1960s that “all politics are personal,” and today for tens of thousands of middle-class American women, this adage is playing out with a vengeance. For these women, “undocumented” immigrants are simply victims worthy of care and compassion—they are our “neighbors” (though it is unlikely that many activist women live in neighborhoods inhabited by even a single illegal). What others would call ethnic “division” is for them a laudable multicultural mosaic. Hatred for Trump comes natural here: He is the divider par excellence. Moreover, these activists are so blinded by faux compassion that they are incapable of seeing that their beloved sanctuary cities are little more than soft detention camps for future Democratic voters. They refuse to see that open borders will not lead to a multicultural lovefest in the heartland, but to ever-deepening division and criminal violence.
Watching these smug, insufferable women hurling their invective at ICE agents has begun to sicken me. I long to climb on my soapbox, bullhorn in hand, and bellow “Shut Up!”
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