The right-wing propaganda machine works hard to instill fear in white women. It’s replete with images of crime everywhere and warnings that immigrants are threats. The tragic killing of Renee Nicole Good on Jan. 7 and the Trump administration’s response to it have ripped away any remaining pretense: We are witnessing the implementation of a white nationalist agenda, sanctioned at the highest levels of power. Nearly one year since Trump’s second inauguration and Elon Musk’s infamous Nazi salute, white women, in particular, are refusing to play their assigned role as silent shock absorbers for state violence. The victim-blaming looks to have backfired on MAGA.
Within hours of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross shooting Good, an unarmed mother in Minneapolis, the official narrative had already been decided at the highest levels of the Trump administration: She was a “domestic terrorist” who “willfully and viciously” tried to run over a federal agent, and thus her shooting death was justified. The refusal to even investigate her killing has reportedly led to a raft of resignations at the Department of Justice. Now, MAGA’s entire political project is in question.
