Ms Schlafly comes across as a con, using half truths and outright lies, dismissal of facts as lies and fabrication as truths, the stock in trade of many political figures today.
Ms Blanchett does an excellent job of portraying Schlafly's duplicity and charisma, her ability to manipulate the moment, switch her feelings on and off in a second. and switching alliances as needs dictate, casting aside even the most loyal follower..While she buries her true feelings and emotions behind a smile and curt, submissive laugh. All personality traits of a high functioning psychopath and cult leader. She didn't lead a movement of conservative women opposed to the ERA, she led a cult of women willing to believe her every word and follow her anywhere.
She cleared the path for Reagan and opened the road for Trump thirty-six years later/
The irony seems to be that the ERA stood for everything Schlafly believed in and she was willing to destroy.
Review of Mrs. America
