So, Kristi Noem is the latest to flop onto the Trump Administration’s chopping block.
Within the past week, Trump fired Noem, the former Homeland Security Secretary, and already declared her replacement to be Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin. Formerly the governor of South Dakota, Noem was appointed as DHS Secretary in January 2025 following Trump’s inauguration. A little over a year later, she is being replaced after criticism of her controversial actions while in the role; Trump’s reported “frustrations” with her playing a part in her removal.

While she may be the first to be eliminated from the Trump 2024 Cabinet, Noem is not the only disgraced MAGA darling. Take Marjorie Taylor Greene, for instance. She formerly represented Georgia’s 14th congressional district, and was one of Trump’s biggest defenders; that’s right, was, until the man decided to start meddling in other countries, and until the resistance by the party regarding the release of the Epstein files. Now, ever since he labeled her a traitor and revoked his political endorsement after she questioned his foreign policies, she has said that Trump’s policies are not “America first,” and that she was “naive” for ever believing that Trump was acting in the country’s best interest.

As it turns out, voting for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party doesn’t mean your face is exempt from being included in the platter. These ladies, alongside thousands and even millions of women, decided to elect and endorse a convicted felon and known sexual predator into the most important office in the United States. Now, they are suffering the consequences.

All of this to say: was it worth it?

To any female Trump loyalist who may be reading this:
It may seem easy to align with the far right. Maybe you genuinely believe this group shares your values, that they will champion your beliefs. Or you may perceive there to be a modicum of safety in complying and in portraying yourself to be “one of the good ones”—and you wouldn’t exactly be mistaken in making this assumption, either. After all, when you consider some of the latest landmark legislative measures, Roe v. Wade has been overturned for nearly four years, and millions of married women are at risk of losing voting access thanks to the recent SAVE America Act. But you might be the type of woman who thinks these limitations are good, actually. You may have played a hand in creating or allowing these harmful policies that impact the lives of millions. You might even have done so cheerfully, claiming to be “ending wokeness” or “sticking it to the libs” or whatever other term you like to use to describe the disenfranchisement and dehumanization you are propagating. 

But here’s the thing: your perceived proximity to power will not save you.

In this hierarchy of conservative patriarchal power, being a woman who sides with society’s biggest oppressors will only get you so far. The conservative men that you submit to all share an open secret: they will never see you as their equal. Even if you feel that they only mean to demean the “evil feminists” and the backwards liberals, you are not the exception. To them, your political leanings are always second to what your body can do for them. To them, you are innately inferior, barely a fully realized human being. You are a pawn, a product, a sex object, a servant, a plaything. To them, your only purpose is to be fucked, as political livestreamer Nick Fuentes so gracefully puts it: “Women exist for sex. Women are either mothers, whores, or nuns… There are no female philosophers. There are no female inventors. There are no female generals or billionaires. They are mothers, whores, nuns. End of list.” And the loser incel with the Madonna-whore complex mentality is just one of the dozens of like-minded, far-right political voices you’re claiming to have camaraderie with. That’s not even mentioning their leader, the man sitting in office who has had multiple sexual assault lawsuits filed against him even before his connections to Jeffrey Epstein were given a spotlight, whose violent and degrading comments towards women have warranted article after article.

You may think these men seek to protect you from the threats of liberalism or communism or all the other –isms that scare you. But conservative men boast of their own favorite –isms: sexism, racism, ableism, the list goes on. And when they trip, they will shove you down first to cushion their fall. Simply put, you’re joining a boys’ club, one in which degrading women and other marginalized groups is not just part of their bonding and kinship, it’s a way to enforce their “masculinity.” In the conservative Christofascist sphere, manhood is about authority, about who can exert control because it is their “God-given purpose.” Sure, you could agree with that statement, and your religious beliefs and communities might even encourage you to. But neither you nor any other woman in this country would have any of the rights you do to begin with if they hadn’t been fought for by the very people you mock and dehumanize—because newsflash, the men you worship did not grant you these rights out of the kindness of their hearts. Therefore, alienating yourself from those troublesome feminists and the people fighting back against bigotry, all to vocalize your endorsement for your oppressors, doesn’t make you a revolutionary or a persecuted martyr; it makes you an embarrassment, a hypocrite of the highest severity. And if you’ve fallen for the internalized misogyny that tells you that your only role as a woman should be to submit to these men and their wishes, then they’ve already won.

 
You may consider yourself to be “not like other girls.” But your intellect, your services, and your unwavering support will never be celebrated by the men you uplift because all they will ever see you as is submissive, subhuman. In the end, it doesn’t matter whether or not you share their beliefs and ideologies, because your role in their world is to sacrifice your needs to serve theirs.
They’re laughing and spitting at you in your spraytanned, botoxed face—and you’re doing a great job at letting them do so.