Victor Davis Hanson: Why Leftist Feminists are Clinging to the Lindsay Clancy Case

“She’s suffered enough because she doesn’t have the people that she murdered.” That claim, made in defense of Lindsay Clancy—the Massachusetts mother who strangled her three young children—struck Victor Davis Hanson as something out of “the darkest mind of something out of the Third Reich.” But the episode’s central argument is not really about one case. It is about an ideological pattern: how left-wing feminism, in Hanson’s view, has become an anti-humanistic death cult that now trumps almost every other identity in the intersectionality hierarchy, including race and immigration status.

The Intersectionality Hierarchy and the Clancy Case

The case itself seemed straightforward to most Americans: Clancy killed her children, one of whom witnessed the murder of a sibling and tried to flee. But the trial produced a hung jury, and the lone holdout was a Black immigrant man named Michael Desrinville. When he went public to explain that he thought the prosecution had proven her guilt, the response from some white feminist commentators was revealing. Hanson points to Gail King’s interview with another juror, where King asked whether the jury had any people of color, any Black men—and seemed to imply that Desrinville’s race should have been a factor in siding with the defense. “I thought that black men and black people in general had more priority than white feminism in this inters