No such a wild conspiracy theory. Pen America, Media Matters, and others have for months been telling anyone who will listen that Moms for Liberty is not some organic, grass-roots collective of suburban mothers attending school board and library board meetings because they're shocked (shocked I tell you!) about the "garbage" kids are reading these days. They're actually part of the Republican machine, funded by deep-pocket donors like the DeVos family, etc. Big GOP donors evidently believe this is one way of appealing to the suburban mom vote that eroded badly for them in 2020. The idea seems to be: Create an imaginary dragon that wants to eat your kids, then slay it and reap the political benefit.