Ted Cruz will never “Let It Go”: The right-wing’s insane new fear of “Frozen”

Ted Cruz will never “Let It Go”: The right-wing’s insane new fear of “Frozen”

"Two separate news items are a reminder of how little conservatives trust women and how much they think women have to be held under firm, preferably male control—and how much this attitude influences the politics of the Republican candidates for President. Over the weekend, candidates Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal and Mike Huckabee attended the National Religious Liberties Conference, held by a group of hardline fundamentalists. Prior to the conference, I highlighted how the main organizer and many of the speakers have spoken approvingly of the death penalty for gay people, but the event itself was a reminder that they don’t like women, particularly independent women, any better. This was epitomized by a session at the conference run by Geoff Botkin of the Western Conservatory of the Arts and Sciences, about the perennial right-wing belief that civilization is on the verge of collapse. Botkin relied heavily on the Disney movie Frozen as evidence that modern America is in the thrall of Satan."