{"id":6069,"date":"2026-09-10T18:24:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=6069"},"modified":"2026-09-10T18:24:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:24:02","slug":"rediscovering-the-manly-virtues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=6069","title":{"rendered":"Rediscovering the manly virtues"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Democrats, which of course includes the Democratic Socialists of America\u2014DSA\u2014Democrats\u2019 overt wing\u2014have real difficulty finding normal men. By \u201cnormal,\u201d I mean\u00a0men who haven\u2019t emotionally or physically abused women, haven\u2019t 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 \u201cnon-binary,\u201d and is called \u201cthe father\u201d because \u201cfather\u201d means\u00a0he\u2019s male. Jesus is not a contemporary, DSA woman, and people beholding most men don\u2019t immediately think of them as wimpy.<\/p>

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Most of all, they\u2019re having trouble finding men who haven\u2019t 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why Democrat candidates routinely do and say things to make themselves look like what they think \u201cmasculine\u201d is, or at least a little less wimpy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The prototypical failed attempt was Michael Dukakis\u2019 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:<\/p>\n

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His much older opponent Eric Adams easily pumped off reps. Mamdani couldn\u2019t manage one. His lack of physical strength shouldn\u2019t 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\u2019t kill them first. American Marxists aren\u2019t producing much in the way of manliness either.<\/p>\n

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, he who manfully called for \u201cmaximum warfare\u201d against Republicans, backed that up with this photo:<\/p>\n

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Apparently, he thought the baseball bat and slack-faced expression were fearsomely ghetto. As the tweet suggests, it didn\u2019t attract many actual women, who tend to know what real men are. Not deterred by humiliating failure, it didn\u2019t take long for Jeffries to try this look:<\/p>\n

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Democrat women, who can\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

Sometimes you have to quit while you\u2019re behind, not that Jeffries, for whom his Democrat colleagues have been measuring bus wheels for months, will get the idea.<\/p>\n

The media continually tells us we\u2019re going to experience not only a blue wave, but a blue tsunami in the midterms. Fortunately, they\u2019re not exactly a bastion of toxic masculinity themselves, as their pollsters have recently revealed when their polls were disastrously wrong.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>

Read more Private schools should not be able to expel children because their parents ask questions<\/a><\/p>\n

But Hasan Piker is really big, and Abdul El-Sayed is kind of muscly!<\/em><\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

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\u201cPeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

These days, amend that to include rough women, who are more manly than most Democrat politicians.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

OK, some guys do wear stupid hats; you got me there.<\/p>\n

The general rule is if you think you have to prove you\u2019re manly, you aren\u2019t. Normal Americans, and particularly normal American women, know that. Democrats don\u2019t, or abandon that vital knowledge in desperation.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m hoping that enough voters will find some distinctly male characteristics persuasive,\u00a0<\/p>\n

like the senses of duty, honor, and self-sacrifice, love of country and its people that have won wars and preserved liberty. It\u2019s times like that when we discover and appreciate the masculine virtues all over again.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s electing the kinds of girly men Democrats are running that produces\u00a0the kind\u00a0of times we need to rediscover and appreciate those manly\u00a0virtues.<\/p>\n

Become a subscriber and get our weekly Friday newsletter with unique content from our editors.\u00a0These essays alone are worth\u00a0<\/em>the cost of the subscription.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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<\/em>\u00a0Stately McDaniel Manor.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>

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