You bet, Peachy Keenan tells me, and argues in her new book as well. But we’d better be prepared to keep fighting, says the pseudonymous author of Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War. The new book, which is available for pre-order through our sister Salem unit Regnery now and will launch on Tuesday, relates Keenan’s transformation from a secular pro-choice feminist to a devoted Catholic mother of five.

In our conversation, Peachy provided a hilarious look at the extremism of the cultural Left and its attacks on the family. The book “comes out next week on D-Day,” Peachy says with a laugh. “We’re storming the beaches!”

“That’s actually a pretty good metaphor,” I reply, “especially if you’re living in Los Angeles.”

“You get attacked on the beaches, actually,” she quips right back. “I didn’t start out like this, you know,” Peachy continues. “I was raised by secular atheists… in elite private school institutions. All my friends were liberals. I was a liberal too — I was a feminist, pro-choice. .. I definitely prided myself in being a coastal elitist,” she says.

Marriage changed her perspective, but having her first child was transformational, Peachy explains. “I was in my thirties and I was like, wow, this is great. Like, no one told me,” she continues. “I really love being a mom, I love this baby, like I want to have as many as I can. You know, I don’t have that much time left. I got, I have to hustle,” Peachy laughs. “Before I knew it, I had a whole bunch.  I had three under three, and then we kept going …  now I have children that are about to graduate high school, and I like to say I escaped feminism by the skin of my teeth.”

That has truly opened her eyes to the false promises of the progressive culture and especially their attacks on the family. We started discussing OnlyFans and whether the women who choose it have true agency, and Peachy is skeptical. “They think they do,” Peachy says, ‘but they have been brutally lied to for years, basically brainwashed.” It took her years to realize that the contraceptive culture is not liberating, she says, “and in fact birth control is a form of mind control.”

I suggest that it can be argued that the contraception culture can look like liberation but act a lot like slavery. “It’s funny you say ‘slavery’,” Peachy says, “because of one of the graphics that accompanied the Tinder ten-year anniversary article in the New York Times Magazine. The illustration was of a woman’s wrist handcuffed to her cell phone with the Tinder app on it.”

So how do we fight against this cultural onslaught? The Left wants to paint conservatives as the “bad people,” Peachy notes, but in truth “there’s a war on normals, on normalcy. And so,” she continues, “the point of my book is that the only way to win this is to become extremely domestic. Reject all of this stuff, pull yourself and your family out of mainstream American culture.”

That’s especially important for women, as the culture is trying to erase them specifically. “If I can do it, if I can kind of break out of the conditioning,” Peachy says, “literally anyone can do it.” And she’s in it to inspire others and because she sees the gap on the front lines. “I really feel like well someone’s gotta stand up here,” she tells me. “You know how people say they have skin in the game? I have a lot of kin in the game. … I want them to have families, and I hope to have many grandchildren.”

The book comes out on Tuesday, but is available for pre-order now. You can follow Peachy on her Twitter feed and on her Substack. This episode of The Ed Morrissey Show podcast has more highlights:

• Peachy sees “a huge pushback” against the Dodgers over the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in Los Angeles. “I mean, I know a family who named their son after Clayton Kershaw,” she says, “and they have completely disavowed the team forever. I mean, honestly, it’s game over for the Dodgers among a lot of people I know.”
• “Same with Target,” she continues. “These sort of satanic clothing designers that they’ve given these mark licensing agreements, like this is who they are prioritizing. They don’t care what normal parents and kids want. They have chosen, they’ve chosen poorly,” she continues, “and really, our only recourse now is is to punish them as much as we can, refusing to take part.”
• Disneyland’s descent hits home to Peachy. “Look, I’ve been in that boutique many times. I have little girls. We are Bibiddy Bobiddy customers. We’ve done the whole make over, the whole experience. And like I said, it’s one of the last places in the park where you have this really, truly splendid, magical, immersive little kid experience.” And yet, Disney has chosen to ruin the illusion by breaking character with men in dresses.
• “Why does Disney want to put this so up front? He’s at the door greeting them. I don’t have no problem,” she says. “If that guy washed off his makeup and wore a little medieval man’s outfit and was checking them in, no one would care. Why does it have to be the godmother character? They can give him a special man character, like why is that so important? Because,” she says, “it’s political.”

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