The insult wielded against protesters taps into a long tradition of casting wine drinkers as out-of-touch elitists.
While discussing the protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement in American cities, David Marcus wrote in a Fox News Opinion piece last week that “organized gangs of wine moms” were using “antifa tactics to harass and impede” ICE agents. He also referred to those mothers as “self-important white women,” a comment echoed by another Fox News personality, Will Cain, who spoke of “a weird kind of smugness” among them.
“Wine moms” conjures up ludicrous images — women holding babies in one arm and brandishing bottles in the other, legions of them marching forth in zombie lock step.
Pity the misunderstood wine Mom.
