NYT: On The Waning Influence Of Moms For Threeways

The New York Times reports:

As Moms for Liberty reels from the scandal surrounding the Zieglers, the group’s power seems to be fading. Candidates endorsed by the group lost a series of key school board races in 2023. The losses have prompted questions about the future of education issues as an animating force in Republican politics. John Fredericks, a Trump ally in Virginia, said the causes that Moms for Liberty became most known for supporting — policies banning books it deemed pornographic, curtailing the teaching of L.G.B.T.Q. issues and policing how race is taught in schools — had fallen far from many voters’ top concerns.

In November, the group announced that it had removed the chairwomen of two Kentucky chapters after they had posed in photos with members of the Proud Boys, a far-right group with a history of violence. That came several months after a chapter of Moms for Liberty in Indiana quoted Adolf Hitler in its inaugural newsletter. The year before, Ms. Ziegler publicly denied links to the Proud Boys after she had posed for a photo with a member of the group at her election night victory party. The episodes have transformed the group’s image and alienated it from the voters it once claimed to represent.

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“Most of our community could not care less what you do in the privacy of your own home, but your hypocrisy takes center stage,” said Sally Sells, a Sarasota resident & mother of a fifth-grader, told Ms. Ziegler during a tense school board meeting” https://t.co/Q9QJfloMzN

— Randi Weingarten 🇺🇦🇺🇸💪🏿👩‍🎓 (@rweingarten) December 16, 2023

Blatant hypocrisy from another homophobe in a same-sex group relationship. What a surprise. “Florida Sex Scandal Shakes Moms for Liberty, as Group’s Influence Wanes” https://t.co/DPpYERBRnf

— Dave Cullen (@DaveCullen) December 16, 2023