Progressive Traitor Talk – Christine Rosen, Commentary Magazine
President Donald Trump s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday prompted predictable overreactions by partisans on the left, but a few stood out for their invocation of traitorousness: Consider her out of context, and Amy Coney Barrett looks like a personal and professional success, writes New York magazine s Sarah Jones. In fact, Jones claims, Barrett is a familiar specter: a traitor to her sex.
Jones (who, earlier in the weekend, went on a Twitter rant claiming that Justice Elena Kagan, who had no experience as a judge when she was nominated to the Court, is more qualified than Barrett, who does) compares Barrett to conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly. She denounces them both for their offenses against motherhood, an odd position for a self-described feminist to embrace. Schlafly, famously, was no housewife, and Barrett is even more of a career woman, Jones sniffs. But both women, according to Jones, were only successful because they embraced something she calls professional anti-feminism.
