People Accuse Katie Miller Of Using Her Newborn Baby To Push MAGA’s Agenda

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MAGA podcaster/influencer Katie Miller has been known to rile people up online with her posts about pregnancy and the declining birth rate. Earlier this year, she took to X to assert that liberal men aren’t having children because they “aren’t attractive.” Months prior, she made a similar claim about liberal women, writing, “Conservative women are just factually more attractive than liberal women. It’s why more conservatives than liberals are having babies.”

Interestingly, in a recent post, she seemed to imply that fewer women are having kids because they’ve been propagandized.

And she used a photo of her newborn baby to try to make her point.

Katie and her husband, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, welcomed their fourth child on Wednesday, June 3. Just weeks later, on June 25, Katie shared a photo that showed her holding their newborn. However, she made the post political in a way that weirded critics out.

She captioned the photo with, “Imagine how much propaganda it took to convince women that this is oppressive.” Oh, so the fact that fewer women are having kids isn’t because they’re unattractive? Interesting!

Though Katie has tried to say that the declining birth rate is related to attractiveness, she and some other MAGA influencers also like to claim that women who choose to not have children have been brainwashed into thinking that motherhood is oppressive. Some tradwife-style influencers have also been pushing the idea that motherhood is inherently more fulfilling than anything else.

Katie’s post sparked a ton of backlash, but not because people are offended by parenthood.

Instead, people accused her of making things up and missing the point entirely.

“No one thinks it’s oppressive to have a baby,” one person wrote in response. “People think it’s oppressive to have no choice about whether to have a baby. About being able to work if one chooses. To have equal rights. All things that YOU have.”

Another critic called her “hypocritical” for promoting the idea that motherhood is women’s true purpose in life when she is educated, has her own podcast, and has her own political career in addition to having a family. In other words, she’s not exactly a tradwife. “No one said it was oppressive,” that critic argued. “What we say is that you all pretend – and tell other American women – that this is the ONLY job a woman should have, and yet every one of you who tells women this has an actual job and probably has nannies taking care of the kids.”

“Motherhood is beautiful,” someone else commented. “Motherhood being your only permitted identity is the part people object to. Wild how that distinction keeps getting lost.”

Critics argued that, in reality, Katie’s post functions as propaganda. “What you’re doing here (lying about how feminists view motherhood) is the propaganda actually,” one person wrote.

People also criticized her for using her newborn baby for MAGA propaganda.

The fact that she just welcomed her son weeks ago and is already using photos of him to make political statements rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. “Imagine using your children to rage-bait people,” someone wrote.

Another critic added, “Imagine how much depravity and self-loathing it takes to use your newborn as a prop to push MAGA’s white nationalist agenda.”

They could easily think of better ways to spend time, actually. “When my first child was born, my wife and I spent our time enjoying being around him and each other instead of using him as an outrage farm for the angry people in my phone,” one critic pointed out.

And another critic who offered Katie advice said, “can you just be normal and say ‘I love my baby’ or something?”

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Paige Sheffield (she/her)