Is it too obvious to say that the brutal separations of wives from husbands, sons from mothers, sisters from brothers that is evidenced in the Trump immigration crackdown gives the lie to the right’s claims to champion love, parenthood and family?
Is it too obvious to say that of course the right only values family as a system of ownership and property, only values motherhood as a way to push women from public life and into relationships of dependence and subordination, only values babies and births when they are white babies and white births, meant to reproduce the nation as they imagine it?