Bannon now targets white suburban mothers as the right’s key constituency

Evidence

In the early months, when I would hear Wolf on War Room: Pandemic describing some straightforward plan to encourage vaccination as one step away from concentration camps, I sometimes thought I could detect a suppressed giggle in Bannon’s voice, as if he was thinking, I cannot believe this feminist chick actually went further than I ever would. Do go on … He keeps his composure, however. Just as he knew in 2016 that Trump could not win without pissed-off, mostly white union guys, he is sure now that pissed-off, mostly white suburban moms—nerves frayed from those years of yo-yo remote schooling and closed gyms; still revved up about vaccine mandates and getting shadow banned on Instagram; genuinely worried about the well-being of their kids and their small businesses; done being dismissed and mocked as “Karens” by mean liberals—are the path to the next right-wing resurgence. Last time, Bannon railed against Wall Street and the globalists who had fleeced the Everyman; now he rails against that plus Big Pharma, Big Tech, and “woke capitalism,” all of which are tormenting the Everymom by poisoning the minds and bodies of her kids. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 423

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: This paragraph condenses the book’s method: Klein registers Bannon’s enjoyment of Wolf’s excess, then maps his strategy pivot from Everyman to Everymom — showing how the mirror world recruits through genuine maternal grievances, not just hate.
• SEED: Angle: the Everyman-to-Everymom pivot as an origin story for today’s mom-wars and the capture of maternal grievance by the far right.