'Being MAGA robs you': Analyst warns Karoline Leavitt is beginning to crack
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is beginning to crack, according to Salon Senior Writer Amanda Marcotte.
The Trump attack dog — whose role Marcotte described as “to keep the mostly male MAGA base invigorated by demonstrating the White House's powers at annoying the women they resent” — is beginning to show signs of strain, the analyst wrote Monday.
Marcotte wrote that Leavitt's role is to take to the White House podium and troll Trump's detractors — and she's good at it.
“Leavitt's not just a more clever troll than her boss, but she has more courage,” Marcotte said, noting the several times Leavitt has “gaslit” seasoned White House reporters during her briefings.
But the trolling — and the hit back from anti-Trumpers who have mocked Leavitt's defense of her boss as well as her attacks on the feminism that has allowed her to reach her position in the first place — are leaving their mark, Marcotte wrote.
"I don't want to dissuade anyone from making fun of Leavitt. First, it's fun, which needs no justification," she wrote.
"More importantly, the mockery is working, especially as a long-term strategy. Yes, Trump voters get the sugar high of knowing they've angered some feminists. But in reading the comments sections of various social media posts where people were fighting about Leavitt, it became clear that conservative women find her embarrassing.
"Their defenses of her were weak and mealy-mouthed, mostly lame assertions that she's a good Christian — which is hard to square with all the lying. These debates, especially if witnessed by younger women who haven't fully made up their minds about their political identities, help to instill a sense that being a handmaiden of patriarchy is cringeworthy.
"No one wants to be like Karoline Leavitt, old before her time, and spending all her time around cranky, Fox News-addled senior citizens. She may make a certain kind of man happy, but to women, the ultimate message is clear: Being MAGA robs you of your youth, beauty and talent, and replaces them with a lifetime of service to the worst men."