Trad Wife Scandal Rocks MAGA As Bigoted Influencers Exposed in Sex Scandal
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What is the trad wife scandal in the MAGA community?
Okay, listener, we need to take a little break from all of the stuff that Donald Trump is doing to terrorize citizens and take a little deep dive into this juicy, salacious, trad wife scandal in the heart of MAGA. And I have with me today, Will Sommer. He is a senior reporter at The Bulwark, and he writes the newsletter called The False Flag on Right-Wing Media and Conspiracy Theories, which is right up my alley for entertainment. Will, how are you today?
Hey, I'm good. Thanks for having me on.
All right, so let's dive into this. We have a trad wife and then we have a right wing influencer, Elijah Schaefer, that apparently weren't supposed to be together and engaged in a slap and tickle style affair. Is that correct?
That's right. I mean, I think you summed it up colorfully there. Yeah, I mean, so this is, you know, we can look at Elijah Schaefer first, maybe. I mean, this is a guy who was once Glenn Beck's protege, this kind of rising star in right wing media. And then he got fired from Glenn Beck's company for allegedly assaulting, sexually assaulting one of his coworkers. And there were all these other harassment allegations.
Who is Elijah Schaefer and what are his controversies?
And then he said, wait, I'm a real Christian guy now. I have a wife and kids. You know, I'm going to live this traditional lifestyle.
and needless to say um the revelations of last week suggest that that was not really the case okay i want to play a video for you and the listener of this elijah schaefer so everybody can kind of know exactly the type of man that we're talking about kylie play the clip
I saw a tweet that said this. It's like, it's crazy on 2025 to pull bitches. You literally have to be like a millionaire, six foot seven, drive a Lamborghini, and like, you know what I mean? Like, and be white. And it's like, yeah, so women are still going after men that emulate the most masculine tendencies, right? They're going after tall, rich, famous men. And men... And what do we get? The women, they're just whores. They can't even cook a Hot Pocket, you know? So it's like, and Ryan, that's why once you have sex with them, once you come, you come to your senses, right?
How does toxic masculinity manifest in right-wing circles?
So it's like, you have that post-ejaculate clarity. Post, not clarity, they call it online these days. But like, because you realize like, after you nut, you're like, You're just a bunch of holes. And that's really sad because then it devalues women. So then your view of women becomes so low because women really are just a bunch of holes today. But that doesn't mean that's who they have to be or who God made them to be or what they should be. And I think that a lot of the hatred that I have towards women and a lot of the hatred a lot of men have towards women is simply the product of generations of sin and rebellion that have created women to be something that they're not. They're not feminine. They're masculine.
And like, look at this, this type of woman that...
Okay. I mean, that's alarming to say the least and how it's all wrapped up into Christianity. And I'm from Oklahoma where I lived for 51 years. This doesn't surprise me, this type of toxic masculinity wrapped up into religion and the institutionalized misogyny and sexism that's built into this sect of Christianity.
What role does religion play in the trad wife movement?
Yeah, well, I mean, what a gentleman, right? I mean, you can see that there's the guy with the beard, Joel Webben, who is a, I believe a pastor, a very evangelical Christian guy. And he's kind of, he's almost like Elijah. You're making the subtext of this all a little obvious, you know, that it's about sort of imprisoning women or sort of ensuring you have this access to a woman. I mean, it's gross stuff. And so, and this is what he was saying when he was supposed to be the traditional family man. And so, I mean- As we found out, however, there's he had this employee, this woman, Sarah Stock, who is herself sort of a Catholic trad wife. And, you know, apparently they were carrying on an affair, I guess, before she got engaged.
But he was married with kids and that, you know, even as they were both proclaiming, you know, oh, we're so against fornication.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the trad wife scandal in the MAGA community?
0:04–1:12
2
Who is Elijah Schaefer and what are his controversies?
1:12–2:08
3
How does toxic masculinity manifest in right-wing circles?
2:08–3:08
4
What role does religion play in the trad wife movement?
3:08–4:14
5
How did the affair between Elijah Schaefer and Sarah Stock unfold?
4:14–5:10
6
What are the implications of this scandal for the trad wife movement?
5:10–6:56
7
How do right-wing influencers react to scandals within their ranks?
6:56–8:04
8
What does the future hold for the trad wife ideology after this scandal?
8:04–21:42
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