Democrats, which of course includes the Democratic Socialists of America—DSA—Democrats’ overt wing—have real difficulty finding normal men. By “normal,” I mean men who haven’t emotionally or physically abused women, haven’t raped anyone–or anything–who have something less than perverse sexual proclivities, who are soundly based in reality, which includes understanding that God is not “non-binary,” and is called “the father” because “father” means he’s male. Jesus is not a contemporary, DSA woman, and people beholding most men don’t immediately think of them as wimpy.
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Most of all, they’re having trouble finding men who haven’t left years-long trails of social media posts that are bull goose loony, clinically insane, wildly stupid, and profoundly embarrassing. The worst of all occupy the category of gaffes, one category of which is when a politician accidentally reveals his true beliefs.
The political damage of those posts is compounded when attempts to disappear those posts are discovered, forcing the candidate to issue non-apology apologies, and the party to decide whether or when to throw them under the campaign bus.
That’s why Democrat candidates routinely do and say things to make themselves look like what they think “masculine” is, or at least a little less wimpy.
The prototypical failed attempt was Michael Dukakis’ wimpy little head in a huge helmet, the chinstrap skewed, poking up out of the turret of an M1 Abrams tank. So do the antics of a variety of Democrats trying a bit of bench pressing, like this one by then-NY mayoral candidate Zhoran Mamdani:
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His much older opponent Eric Adams easily pumped off reps. Mamdani couldn’t manage one. His lack of physical strength shouldn’t be mistaken for a lack of will to find plenty of more manly fellow jihadists to do the dirty work if Islamists ever take over. That is, if their temporary Communist allies don’t kill them first. American Marxists aren’t producing much in the way of manliness either.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, he who manfully called for “maximum warfare” against Republicans, backed that up with this photo:
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Apparently, he thought the baseball bat and slack-faced expression were fearsomely ghetto. As the tweet suggests, it didn’t attract many actual women, who tend to know what real men are. Not deterred by humiliating failure, it didn’t take long for Jeffries to try this look:
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Democrat women, who can’t define women, apparently thought Jeffries pretty butch, but Normal Americans thought he looked like a particularly dense adolescent in his dad’s hat, and wondered what happened to the propeller on top.
Sometimes you have to quit while you’re behind, not that Jeffries, for whom his Democrat colleagues have been measuring bus wheels for months, will get the idea.
The media continually tells us we’re going to experience not only a blue wave, but a blue tsunami in the midterms. Fortunately, they’re not exactly a bastion of toxic masculinity themselves, as their pollsters have recently revealed when their polls were disastrously wrong.
It turns out one of the most telling indicators of manhood is the ability and willingness to recognize and deal with reality rather than what ought to be.
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But Hasan Piker is really big, and Abdul El-Sayed is kind of muscly!
Uh-huh. And your point is? Those guys hate America and Americans and support third-world monsters who want to kill everybody they hate, which is pretty much everybody. As George Orwell said:
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
These days, amend that to include rough women, who are more manly than most Democrat politicians.
Normal Americans, and even some Democrats and most Independents, still instinctively default to genuinely American male values like honesty, responsibility, reliability, decency, delayed gratification, no record of rape or domestic violence, natural compassion, no compulsion to mindlessly threaten others or lie about their accomplishments, and no tendency to pose with baseball bats in an office while wearing street clothes, or to wear stupid hats.
OK, some guys do wear stupid hats; you got me there.
The general rule is if you think you have to prove you’re manly, you aren’t. Normal Americans, and particularly normal American women, know that. Democrats don’t, or abandon that vital knowledge in desperation.
I’m hoping that enough voters will find some distinctly male characteristics persuasive,
like the senses of duty, honor, and self-sacrifice, love of country and its people that have won wars and preserved liberty. It’s times like that when we discover and appreciate the masculine virtues all over again.
And it’s electing the kinds of girly men Democrats are running that produces the kind of times we need to rediscover and appreciate those manly virtues.
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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.
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