Conservative women’s hostility to Hillary was cultivated through decades of books and sermons

Evidence

Since the 1970s, the identity of housewives had become highly politicized, and Hillary Rodham Clinton triggered fear, resentment, and disdain among many conservative women, some of whom felt devalued by her very existence. Of course, many women had been reading books and listening to sermons for a good two decades to prepare them to respond in this way. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 325

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Du Mez’s overarching method thesis: consumer culture (books, radio, sermons) manufactured the very responses that later seemed spontaneous and authentic — same thread as the earlier chapters on Sarah Palin-era artifacts.
• SEED: Angles: ‘the manufactured grassroots reaction’ — how moral panics are pre-cultivated by media before the triggering event arrives; or how the housewife identity became a political weapon in the culture wars.