Conservative podcaster Katie Miller earlier this month welcomed her fourth child with husband Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff.
Just 22 days later, she shared a post on X (formerly Twitter) of a relatively innocuous photo of herself with her child, captioned: “Imagine how much propaganda it took to convince women that this is oppressive.”
This isn’t an uncharacteristic post for Miller or her contemporaries, who often promote the idea that women who do not have or want children, or choose to work outside the home, were somehow tricked or brainwashed by feminism.
You only need to look back at her most recent Mother’s Day post to get the idea: “In honor of Mother’s Day, a reminder that peak feminism is having babies. The most radical thing a woman can do is embrace her biological destiny.”
Paired with efforts to brand the second Trump administration as “the most pro-family administration in history” by nature of the number of babies being born to members of its staff, the post fits into the larger pro-natalist narrative that’s becoming hard to divorce from the increased messaging around so-called “trad” lifestyles and the rise in anti-women’s suffrage commentary on the right.
