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For a movement built on female ultra-modesty and subservience, “tradwife” has a strong look. Stateside, that look involves flowing mermaid locks, 1970s TV anchor-woman styling and makeup spread as thick as buttercream. The effect is churchgoing Barbie dolls with a dash of Stepford wife.

All this is on display in BBC Three documentary America’s New Female Right, made by British journalist and presenter Layla Wright, whose mentor is Louis Theroux. Still, it’s not about how the tradwives look; it’s what they say. Rising new right star, teenager Hannah Faulkner (“The feminist movement has lied to women again and again”), and “conservative influencer” Morgonn McMichael (“We are created to be wives and mothers”) are both involved with Turning Point USA, the fast-growing youth movement reported to have lin...
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