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The attorney representing Lindsay Clancy turned to ABC’s Good Morning America (GMA) to declare his plea to President Donald Trump to consider pardoning his client after her trial for murdering her three young children ended Friday in a mistrial.
“Mr. President, I would hope that you would consider this young lady – the type of person she is and what she’s been through – and consider a pardon,” Kevin Reddington, 75, told GMA host George Stephanopoulos Tuesday morning.
Clancy’s case has spurred yet another bizarre cultural nightmare complete with images of thousands of pink-clad women gathered outside Clancy’s Plymouth, Massachusetts courthouse where they vowed to support her as they declare her the true victim of this horrific situation.
As Clancy’s trial progressed, a disturbing TikTok trend grew as mothers, in apparent empathy with Clancy, showed images of themselves holding their own children as they sobbed, “Same, Lindsay.”
“For these women, Clancy is the true victim of a patriarchal justice system that did not understand women’s needs,” wrote Anne Hendershott, professor of Sociology and Director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio.
Writing at The Catholic World Report, Hendershott called the scene that unfolded a “surreal storm” that ultimately revealed a communal “hunger for drama.”
“Their coordinated display of empathetic solidarity, replete with handmade signs stating ‘Believe’ and ‘She Needed Help,’ provides a textbook case of mimetic identification as they were attempting to imitate Clancy’s suffering—elevating her into a kind of martyr whose pain gave shape to their own diffuse anxieties,” she described the phenomenon. “With sorrowful faces and tear-rimmed eyes, the women in pink appeared to mirror her grief, acting as if her pain were coursing through their own bodies.”
With the help of many in the media, Clancy became culturally redefined as the victim in the case. The memory of her murdered children could be conveniently dismissed – as easily, perhaps, as abortion activists dismiss the dismemberment of preborn babies during late-term abortions.
New York Post columnist Miranda Devine agreed that these “TikTok feminists hijacked” Clancy’s trial, providing a “circus act” that “risks adding injustice to the suffering her kids endured.”
“Mental illness is not a defense for murder,” Devine wrote as well on Friday in a social media post.
“To be found not guilty, Lindsay Clancy had to be in the grips of psychosis at the time she strangled her three children to the extent that she did not know what she was doing was wrong,” she explained. “There’s been little compelling evidence for that other than her inconsistent claims that she heard a voice commanding her only for the 18 minutes it took to kill Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, eight months.”
Devine summarized the evidence that, while Clancy saw “multiple shrinks” and had several visits to the hospital, “she had never been diagnosed with postpartum psychosis.”
Despite the evidence, many women appear to be joining together – primarily through social media – to use Clancy as a reflection of their own motherhood experiences.
Director of Communications at National Religious Broadcasters Bethany Miller says the left has manipulated the reality that women have traditionally been nurturers and caretakers.
The managing editor of The Conservateur and a fellow at Concerned Women for America, Miller traced the start of this maneuver with the “right to abortion” movement that initiated the “weaponization” of female qualities of caring and empathy.
“Abortion provided an early master class,” she wrote last week at Glenn. “Its most persuasive cases were always the terrible ones: rape, incest, abandonment, the frightened teenager, the agonizing diagnosis.”
Soon, however, “rare became routine, tragedy became autonomy, autonomy became empowerment, and empowerment eventually became something to celebrate,” Miller observed, adding that “[t]he continuity lies in the hierarchy of sympathy.”
She explains that once an adult woman’s suffering and struggle can come to the fore, “the claims of the dependent child can begin to drift toward the edge of the picture.”
“That same instinct helps explain why so much public discussion of Clancy centers her medications, diagnoses, doctors, marriage, exhaustion, and psychiatric care while Cora, Dawson, and Callan risk becoming supporting characters in the tragedy of their mother,” she pointed out.
Once the abortion as “women’s health care” narrative was established, the left and its allies in the media went ahead with #MeToo, Miller continued, the likes of which can be seen in the TikTok feminists’ response, “Same, Lindsay.”
With the onset of “therapy culture,” she observed. “Trauma, narcissism, gaslighting, triggers, boundaries, validation, emotional labor, and ‘protecting your peace’ migrated from clinical settings into Instagram captions, dating conversations, HR departments, and TikTok confessionals.”
Unlike their foremothers who found ways to bury their struggles and hard life stories, millennials, “put theirs on the therapist’s couch and eventually online,” Miller noted, while “Gen Z inherited the diagnosis before it inherited the experience.”
“This is why truth can begin losing ground to narrative,” she warned. “Once identification hardens into identity, inconvenient facts must compete with a story that has already become personal. The most powerful story online is not necessarily the truest one. It is the one in which the audience can recognize itself.”
Many writers are examining this “surreal storm” that has surrounded Lindsay Clancy and asking, as Miller explained, “what has happened to women.”
During an interview on BlazeTV, Miller told Glenn Beck that, likely due to the barrage of media the American public, in general, is exposed to on a daily basis, many have lost the ability to engage in “discernment,” or “thinking clearly.”
“But, then it gets weaponized with women even more so because they can’t go as far as saying ‘I understand what she’s going through,’” and then stop themselves by deciding their understanding still does not affirm the act of killing her children.
“And I think if you were to talk to most of these women who make these TikTok videos, they probably aren’t tuning into the full trial,” Miller said, suggesting they prefer the emotional roller coaster of sharing the spectacle online with other women.
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