Mickey McElya
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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They make their own signs.
And one of them, the one who is wearing the Nixon for president button while she does this is Terryann Mewson, who will go on herself later to be
Miss America in the early 1970s, will visit the Nixon White House and actually be very representative in Republican politics later in the 1970s.
Partially what drives them to go out there is they feel attacked as individual women.
They feel attacked by women's liberationists who are
challenging their femininity, their right to be women in the way that they want to be women.
It's something that resonates significantly with the kind of discourses of grievance that so much drive our politics today.
What is also crucial is that Mucin will go on to be one of the leading faces of the Christian broadcast network.
She is a very, very visible in the religious right and very visible in evangelical politics.
But also it's that moment of reaction that is a part of this beauty politics that develops.
I think it's very important to think of Donald Trump as just as much a product of this politics as the various women, particularly the women who are in his cabinet, right?
That this is a political formation that is driving American politics, not just the place of women in it.
This isn't just circumstantial.
This is a historical development that had started in 1968 and is very much ongoing.
And that we're seeing sort of – I mean it's kind of – it's fascinating to watch the movements of these things.
And I wonder – I think we may be seeing a new age of prominence for the Miss America pageant.
That's interesting because, I mean, Gretchen Carlson, who went on to then run the Miss America pageant herself, I felt like she might be the entire book in a single life because she was Miss America 1989.
She was mocked for her looks back then, seen as kind of the intellectual Miss America because she had gone to Stanford once.
Then she became a Fox News cultural warrior.
She opposed the term feminism for years.
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