In Senator Katie Britt’s conservative Republican rebuttal of Biden’s State of the Union speech the biggest message was in the background: the kitchen. Whether she decided this, or was simply an unwitting dupe, the kitchen motif was a blatant tell of the conservative Christian Republican party’s view of women and where they belong. This is precisely why Biden cautioned the nation against the danger of old ideas, and what this new MAGA Republican “undo” party seeks to embrace. Britt spoke of being at a crossroads, where the choice is to move forward or backward. Yet the kitchen backdrop speaks for itself, even as Britt would have us believe that the MAGA Christian conservative platform to undo laws that grant voting rights, women’s freedoms, even health care access, is somehow a step forward. Biden’s predecessor has already helped MAGA and Christian conservatives take several “undo” steps back to the kitchen, weakening the Voting Rights Act, overturning Roe v Wade, and now, the absurdist ruling that embryos are people, too! Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has written that striking down Roe v Wade should also open up the high court to review the right for married couples to buy and use contraception without government restriction, to review same sex relationships and marriage equality. Britt was oblivious to the irony as she urged in hushed tones that Republicans “want families to grow,” referring to IVF, but not to their undo plan to outlaw access to abortion. Britt, in her catastrophizing of the world under Biden, spoke of the threat of China, again missing the irony as she warned that if the CCP conquers the minds of the next generation, it conquers America. But apparently it’s just fine if it’s “undo” Christian conservative MAGA doing the conquering. Britt tried to conquer a few minds herself with a dredged up 20 year old story of a sex-trafficking victim at the border to hang on Biden, all while supporting a MAGA presidential candidate who has been found liable for sexual abuse. Britt has warned us that we are at a crossroads, that “it” doesn’t have to be this way. She’s absolutely right. We can move forward and continue to fight for equality, the right to vote, the right to choose, the right to health care, as Biden proposes, or we can take a giant undue MAGA step back, back, back, as Britt’s speech patently shows us, all the way to the little woman in the kitchen where she belongs, the only choice open to her being what to make for dinner.