Katie Paris, a parent and founder of Red Wine and Blue, a left-leaning, Ohio-based network that organizes suburban moms all over the country.
“No matter what party you’re a part of, pandemic parenting was a huge challenge,” Paris said. “When you’re exhausted and frustrated, it is a whole lot easier to point your finger and blame a bogeyman than it is to actually address the challenges in front of us. … Suburban parents don’t like extremism.”