“Candace Owens, too, seems to be floundering—re-examining #MeToo through the Weinstein lens as if she just discovered politicized trials. I tried to watch, but I had to turn it off,” Kraus wrote. “Nothing will make me tune into Harvey again. I lived through that trial. No one cared then—when it was actually happening. Because Hollywood is seeded by perversities and morally handicapped people in power. This isn’t news. It’s the status quo. Always has been. The final take was that he was as gross as the victims who showed up to testify after decades of seeking him out in hotel rooms to ‘pitch a script’ in bathrobes next to champagne buckets at midnight.”
Megyn Kelly catches strays in Kraus’s missive too, pissing her off by advantage of, apparently, not being Here For The Right Reasons. There is one one that can converse to a feminine viewers, and that’s Kraus.
Days after dousing herself in media haterade, in a e-newsletter despatched March 26, Kraus congratulates “two of my favorite men in the business”—Mark Halperin and former Kennedy aide Link Lauren—on the announcement that they have been becoming a member of Kelly’s media enterprise. It seems to be an earnest high-five.
Owens, in the meantime, took offense to Kraus’s burns. The Insta-wars start. Owens posts text-only slides saying that each one of Kraus’s mates hate her. Kraus posts again saying, oops, sorry, couldn’t hear you, too busy touring the White House. Owens responds by saying, what was that, couldn’t hear you, too busy being pregnant and parenting my youngsters. Who’s the higher conservative? Who’s the higher mom? Who’s successful? Who cares?
Both Kraus and Owens are moms. Both use that standing as a defend in opposition to potential criticism, inside and with out the MAGA faction. Have one thing to say? You should hate ladies and never worth moms. That’s one factor they agree on. Neither influencer instantly responded to Vanity Fair.
Between the entertaining—if completely mystifying—infighting amongst MAGA’s citizen boosters, Kraus overtly questioning how the Signal debacle ought to have been dealt with, seeming to vacillate between “nbd” and “decidedly bd,” Owens providing her sizzling takes on the newly declassified JFK assassination information, and extra, there’s loads of extracurricular gossip and ideological tug-of-wars to distract from that entire making-great-happen factor, not to mention once more.
Yes, it’s a petty skirmish between the 2, however it’s additionally a portent of the fracturing of MAGA, private assaults chipping away on the already-flimsy basis of Trump’s base. As Carville mentioned, they will do the work of tearing each other down.