The Democrats’ Man Problem
Kurt Schlichter
It’s a challenge when you want to be a major political party and you can’t seem to avoid alienating about 90 percent of 50 percent of the population, but that’s the challenge the Democrats have accepted. People with penises who identify as men, I have some bad news for you. They don’t like you. Not at all. And their solution to this problem – and it’s a serious problem – is to try to convince you, in the least convincing possible way, that they dig you so you’ll shut up and vote as you’re told.
But they do not dig you. Not at all. And they deeply resent that the brutal arithmetic of politics requires that they at least try to appeal to dudes who are not femboys, pinkos, pervs, or eunuchs dominated by their evil faux first wives.
What do they dislike about men and masculinity? Well, the men and masculinity parts. Somebody has to be to blame for the fact that everything they lay their soft, girlish hands on turns to Schiff. Normal men are as good a scapegoat as any; there will never be any introspection about how the common denominator in the disasters that inevitably stem from feminized government (and everything else) is the feminization part. Helen Andrews has called it—check out her
viral take on the phenomenon.
Ambition, clear standards, and a willingness to engage in direct conflict rather than passively-aggressively trying to cancel anyone who dares to wrongthink are among the laudable attributes of masculine institutions that have slowly been eroded over the years in favor of the soft, mushy goo of naggy, scoldy failure we have seen in recent decades. Look at the institutions that have embraced their inner girl, which is better at doing the job the institution was meant to do, rather than following the feels of its feminine figureheads. Look at one institution that has unashamedly rejected this pernicious trend and done a 180-degree turnabout. The military, a year ago, was a DEI-addled, barely functional bureaucracy dedicated to imposing civilian society’s social pathologies on what were supposed to be warriors. Diversity is our strength? No, it never was. That’s a soft-headed cliche masquerading as a profound leadership insight. Under Pete Hegseth, the military is once again enforcing standards, on hair, on bellies, on not pretending to be a chick. It’s no longer body-positive, trans-welcoming, and war-losing. Just ask the mullahs, or the Houthis, or the fragments of the drug runners bobbing out there in the ocean about our newly retoxified military’s masculine effectiveness. Name a feminized institution that’s better than the masculine version. Public schools? Hollywood? Academia? Our government, before that big meanie Donald Trump, with his expectations and testosterone, started demanding excellence over demographic box-checking?
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