Moms for Liberty Is Tearing Itself Apart
One of the Republican Party’s most successful grassroots organizations is being torn apart by scandal, including accusations of sexual assault.
Moms for Liberty, the extremist “parental rights group,” was supposed to help the Republican Party regain the White House. In July, former president Donald Trump called the anti-LGBTQ group with 300 active chapters across the county a “grassroots juggernaut.” They are credited with forcing schools to lift mask mandates, banning books featuring LGBTQ characters, and supporting anti-trans laws and policies across the country. The group was on track to be instrumental to the GOP in the 2024 election.
But, over the course of the past five months, the group has begun to unravel.
Experts have questioned the claims about the size of the group’s membership, and individual members have been
exposed as sex offenders and
acolytes of the Proud Boys. Then, last month, Moms for Liberty cofounder Bridget Ziegler
admitted in a police interview to being in a relationship with her husband and another woman. The interview was conducted after the woman in question alleged that Ziegler’s husband, Florida GOP chair Christian Ziegler, had raped her.
One of the Republican Party’s most successful grassroots organizations is being torn apart by scandal, including accusations of sexual assault.
www.wired.com