Helen Lewis

They want tax breaks, right?

So they want the American economic system and tax system to be re-geared towards being friendlier to the types of families that they think are the best ones.

It's perfectly legitimate for them to make that argument.

The reason that we have a situation the way that it is, is that people didn't like the idea that the children of a single mother were kind of starving over a principal.

So I think they'll have an uphill argument on that.

And then you get the kind of, yeah, the wilder fringes.

So Doug Wilson, we mentioned a couple of times, you know, he has an aspiration in 200 years that he wants household voting.

Yeah, well, her husband wouldn't vote instead of her.

More pressingly, he also thinks women shouldn't serve in combat roles in the military.

And now that is, if I had to put my hand on my heart, I think that is also what Pete Hegseth believes.

And he has an aesthetic demand for his army.

You know, he wants an army of people without beards.

He's very clear about this.

And I think Donald Trump has that too, right?

There was that famous reporting about Donald Trump not wanting disabled veterans in his parade.

He's got a vision of what he thinks an army should look like.

So there's all of that stuff is actually already happening.

You've got the chair of the Equal Opportunity Commission who has basically put out a kind of ambulance chasing lawyers ad saying, Are you a white male who's experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex?

So there is also a hunger for using the instruments of the kind of pro-DEI bureaucracy in the other direction.

And actually saying, well, we think it's now it's white men's turn to get treated to some of this, you know, be treated as a protected group and get some special latitude in some of these hiring decisions.