Over the weekend, our own Just Mindy published a VIP piece on how parents, especially mothers, should do as much as they can to spend as much time as they can to spend with their children. Mindy does a lot of pieces on families and parenthood. I guess we're pro-baby here at Twitchy.
I remember writing posts about BirthStrike, a group of middle-class, white women in the U.K. who had sworn off having children to save the climate. But it's not just climate change — whites in America and Europe are reproducing less and less. Some, like Elon Musk, see that as a problem. Barclay Bram of The Economist doesn't see it as a problem; in fact, with Musk and President Donald Trump in charge, he's seen a disturbing rise in pro-natalism, which is a bad thing, because "some critics" (meaning him) see it as part of an "insidious plot" to create a whiter America. Just asking … is it OK to have kids if you're white just because you want to have children? Or does that make you part of the insidious plot?
With Trump and Vance in power, many pro-natalists believe this is the moment to jump-start baby-making. But some critics see pro-natalism as part of an insidious project to create a whiter America https://t.co/WPCQwlTexT
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) November 7, 2025
Bram, who attended something called NatalCon, writes under the headline, "Make America procreate again: among the MAGA fertility fanatics":
The vice-president, J.D. Vance, is at the nexus of the tech-trad alliance. As a vocal convert to Roman Catholicism whose political career was supercharged by Thiel, his former boss, Vance has been thrilled to help make pro-natalism an explicitly MAGA issue. He has criticised prominent Democrats who don’t have biological children for being “childless cat ladies” (Taylor Swift then pointedly used the phrase in her endorsement of Kamala Harris last year); and he made a point of saying in his first public address as vice-president that “I want more babies in the United States of America.” Trump, in turn, has declared himself the “fertilisation president” and recently unveiled a plan to offer discounted fertility drugs through TrumpRx, the administration’s direct-to-consumer website, due to launch next year.
There was a sense among many at NatalCon that, with Trump and Vance in power, the moment to jump-start American baby-making had come at last. But those gathered outside the museum on the opening night of the conference had a different impression: that pro-natalism was part of a broader and more insidious project to create a whiter America. A group of protesters, their faces mostly covered, gathered in the museum’s courtyard. “Nazis off our campus!” they screamed through a megaphone as conference attendees streamed in. One sign read “Eugenicists” with the word “Natalists” crossed through.
[Conference attendee Tim] Adkinson didn’t mind being heckled. “I’ve been called a Nazi at least 500 times in my life,” he told me with a shrug. He didn’t see what all the fuss over pro-natalism was about. “The message is simple: go have babies. And the left is going nuts!”
As Mindy reported back in August, childless cat lady Taylor Swift's announcement of her engagement sparked femi-Nazi leftist meltdowns over her "trad wife" dreams. How dare the ultimate girl-boss want to settle down and have kids?
Only a racist would think people of one race having babies is an "insidious project"...
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) November 8, 2025
Honestly, 100% of the racism in America today is from the Left.
100%
Not even a contest.
The author, Barclay Bram, who thinks white children are insidious https://t.co/RDTJefioPi pic.twitter.com/LVeEvEshgF
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) November 7, 2025
Barclay Bram who wrote this insidious drivel is a gay dude living in China, spewing Chinese propaganda for Xi.
— Savannah Insights 🎙️ (@BasedSavannah) November 8, 2025
Fuck off! You and your little dog too. pic.twitter.com/e9YY3lRyo6
Having babies = White Supremacy.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 7, 2025
These people have no interest in winning another national election for the next 20 years. https://t.co/Z2G1TgGlEA
What exactly about my children’s existence is “insidious?” https://t.co/1CYKwYYWSq pic.twitter.com/SvYk9hhmG2
— MaryCate Delvey (@marycatedelvey) November 9, 2025
“I’m going to give you white people a chance to apologize for your insidious plan to have children" pic.twitter.com/UxbiP6Byco
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) November 7, 2025
Describing young white people starting families as “insidious” really gives the game away here, doesn’t it?
— Logan Hall (@loganclarkhall) November 7, 2025
White people having kids is “insidious.”
— Drake (@theelderdrake) November 7, 2025
It cannot be overstated how much of the modern Left’s ethos is driven by anti-white hate.
White people should not be demonized. White people are a tiny minority of the world population and are becoming a minority here in the USA.
— Keith Gross (@Keithgross) November 8, 2025
Everything isn’t about race. It’s about national identity and American values.
White families having more white children is “insidious”?! You don’t hate journalists enough
— Count Luke Twombly von Jolly (@ltwombly93) November 7, 2025
That makes you look more racist than anyone else. Donald Trump does not care what race new babies are and JD has biracial children himself. Your publication is a deranged neoliberal mental institution.
— Corpo Scribe (@NightCityTimes) November 7, 2025
I wonder what’s more “insidious”: white people being allowed to have children like any other race, or labelling that perfectly natural desire as “insidious”?
— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) November 8, 2025
If procreation is insidious, what does it say about your campaign for limitless immigration?
— Ron Bassilian (@Ron4California) November 8, 2025
White people are fine Americans and we could use more of them. pic.twitter.com/E1KW2c8nAy
— The Mountain Bastard (@MBastard2) November 7, 2025
Wouldn't this be considered genocidal and eugenic language if it was said about any other racial group?
— Kangmin Lee | 이강민 (@kangminjlee) November 8, 2025
It's a really long, tedious piece, but the author really doesn't sell the "insidious" part of white people having families, or what the exact problem with a "whiter America" is. Should nobody be procreating, or only certain races? What Bram's endgame?
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