This is the second in a five-day series. Read part one here.
When former Florida public school student Zander Moricz publicly criticized Bridget Ziegler, co-founder of Moms for Liberty, for her right-wing activism during a Sarasota County School Board meeting, the internet took notice. Now, Ziegler faces fallout from her own scandal, accused of involvement in multiple sex-related scandals. This certainly brings into question the integrity of the outspokenly conservative activist who played a leading role in enforcing the controversial “don’t say gay” law meant to sweep LGBTQ+ issues under the rug in the state.
And as if the irony couldn’t get any richer, police uncovered videos implicating Ziegler in intimate encounters while she was aggressively pushing for a censorship agenda in the public school system. To the surprise of many, some may argue that there is beauty in how justice operates, even in the digital sphere.
Regardless of where you stand, it’s clear that what’s being exposed certainly is a complicated web that has somewhat damaged the integrity of the Moms for Liberty. Bridget Ziegler was once seen as a prominent Republican political figure pushing for sweeping changes, but the tables have turned, much like public perception of the organization she helped shape.
“You do not deserve to be removed from it for having a threesome,” Moricz declared to Bridget Ziegler’s face, in one of the most satisfying speeches of the year. “That defeats the lesson we’ve been trying to teach you, which is that a politician’s job is to serve their community, not to police personal lives.”
“Bridget, you deserve to be fired from your job because you are terrible at your job,” he concluded. “Not because you had sex with a woman.”
A master class in going low to go high. Moricz managed to use Ziegler’s sex life to humiliate her while making a larger point against using sex as a weapon against ordinary people. It was also a fitting obituary for Moms for Liberty, which may limp on for some time as an organization, but whose political power is disappearing along with Bridget Ziegler’s ability to keep up the “chaste church lady” act.
It seems harder to believe today, but two years ago, Moms for Liberty was widely regarded as the great electoral hope of the Republican Party. The pro-censorship/anti-mask group was founded in Florida in January 2021 by far-right Republican activists,
