re: Jen Psaki: Kamala Harris' husband Doug Emhoff 'reshaped the perception of masculinity

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It's a Crisis of Masculinity, Stupid

Men are flocking to Trump because the Left has done nothing but demonize them for nearly a decade

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It seems to have suddenly occurred to the Democrats that they have a problem with men. Oh, we know they have a problem with men. That’s all we’ve heard about for the past ten years ever since Donald Trump committed the great crime of beating Hillary Clinton.

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This gave someone in the Harris/Walz campaign the bright idea to form “White Dudes for Harris,” one of the most ill-conceived campaign pitches of my lifetime. It’s as though an extraterrestrial came down to the planet Earth and thought, “How can we lure in the males of this species?”

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The reasons they cite for choosing the Democrats are all of the main reasons so many are voting for Trump in the first place. To quote Robert DeNiro playing a man afflicted with “toxic masculinity” in Raging Bull, it defeats its own purpose.

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The only men who would proudly and publicly join that group are men who have no self-respect left because they’ve spent much of the past decade apologizing for their existence and de-centering themselves from the narrative, all the while getting a pat on the head from the women in their lives.

The more wealth and power they have, the more likely they’ll put on that shirt and shake that groove thing.

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And they’re surprised somehow that it didn’t work, that men didn’t flock to join a group that drained their testosterone faster than walking in on James Carville’s grandma naked. How did they think this was a good idea again? What preachy millennial childless cat lady made that call?


Meanwhile, Jen Paski does what many of the women of the Left do: attempt to redefine their idea of masculinity. Even Doug Emhoff isn’t buying it. He looks terrified, like he’s gotten in too deep, and he can’t find his way out of this mess

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I don’t want to insult Tim Walz or Doug Emhoff. I would never want to make them feel bad about things they can’t help, like masculinity, but BRUH. They would be what one might call sensitive men. No one out there is buying that Tim Walz is the masculine male role model that will bring back male voters. He’s just not that guy.

They’re trying to sell him as Chief Brody, but really, he’s Matt Hooper from the Oceanographic Institute.

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Masculinity is like physical beauty: you know it when you see it. You’re hard-wired to know it like peacocks know when a male does this:

We can’t just eradicate it and expect things to go well. And by the way, they could never even make Jaws today because they would not allow the film to be cast with three men like that. A woman would have to be on board the Orca to finally kill the shark.

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The reversed hierarchy that has all but destroyed Hollywood has crept its way into every corner of American life until we get all the way to “White Dudes for Harris.”

And now, Hollywood’s problem is the Democrats’ problem, too.

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One of the reasons I began escaping the misery of the Left and finding my way to MAGA rallies is that it was the one time I could feel happiness. Much of that has to do with acceptance and tolerance. It doesn’t read that way to the Left, but that is the MAGA I know.

Young men know that their future is brighter under Trump because they know what it’s been like with the Democrats in power. Suddenly, in the last five minutes of the Harris campaign, they’re rethinking how they’ve treated men? It is like crime, the economy, and the border: too little, too late.

Trump broadcasts the kind of masculine role model men crave that has been absent in our culture for too long. Whether that will translate to a win is a different question, but this problem will persist for the Democrats, at least until the empire collapses. And it will.

As for that woman I used to be, I can’t even recognize her anymore. I thought we were the good guys fighting the good fight. But really, we just didn’t want to let go of power. But to quote one of the greatest films ever made, one that is a study in masculinity, No Country for Old Men, “You can’t stop what’s coming. It ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity.”

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