"Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking"
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The anthrax reference does extra work. It yanks the reader back to the early-2000s panic, when anthrax letters turned everyday mail into a threat and newsrooms and politicians became literal targets. Coulter uses that fear as a prop: if the chance of being attacked is vanishingly small, then, she implies, so is the chance these women can think "linearly". It's a sneer dressed up as statistical common sense.
Subtext: empathy and compromise are not just wrong but cognitively inferior. It’s a gendered shot, too, narrowing "liberalism" into a maternal stereotype and framing emotion as the enemy of rationality. Contextually, this is red-meat punditry optimized for applause lines, not persuasion: it rallies an in-group by offering permission to hate, and it does so by making political disagreement sound like an IQ test with only one acceptable score.
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"Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/liberal-soccer-moms-are-precisely-as-likely-to-14265/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.



