by Brad Pearce
Two weeks from election day the Democrats are in panic mode. Though Trump has made progress in polls and now does look favored in the electoral college, the race is still nearly a dead heat and far from over. However, Kamala Harris’s lack of vision and listless nature is failing to inspire the public. As I said after she was chosen, the Democrat partisans love Kamala because they have been told to, but she has little appeal to others. The biggest concern is how Democrats will perform with men. Though our elections have had a large “gender gap” for decades, it has continued to grow and there is concern that Harris cannot win women at the same rate that Trump can win men.
The “gender gap” is being called the “defining feature” of this race.” It’s really an unfortunate thing, and terrible for society, that politics have become a sort of gender proxy war, but here we are. Regardless, while white men without a college degree have always been Trump’s base, his support from this demographic seems to keep growing. Republicans perform better with men than women among all races, but Democrats rely on receiving the votes of an overwhelming majority of black voters, a trend which appears to be weakening among black men. Further, Hispanic support for Democrats continues to erode, led by Hispanic men. In 10 years or less Hispanics could vote for both parties evenly or even vote majority Republican. In short, Democrats need to staunch the bleeding of male voters, and for that matter their wives, but they are comically unqualified to do so.
After spending decades attacking men, most of all “straight cis white men” for all of the world’s problems, Democrats are at an impasse trying to win their votes. They have increasingly accepted their place as the party of, by, and for women, especially single women, while using men as scapegoats. Now that this has alienated too many male voters, they are trying to bring things back around, but to outsiders their warped perception of men is good for laughs and little else. They associated words “toxic” and “masculinity” with each other in the public mind, yet now are stuck trying to appeal to masculinity. It has been quite the scene. Nearly every day there is a clueless op-ed from a major publication blaming misogyny for Kamala Harris’s polling problems. Of course, the implication is that men could only think she is incompetent and unfocused because of misogyny. Donald Trump’s attacks on her are also said to be sheer misogyny, despite that he has been equally or more nasty to Joe Biden and any number of other men and very little of what he says about Harris specifically relates to her being a woman.
These same op-eds believe associating leadership with masculinity is some sort of distinctly American trait, despite that leaders have primarily been men throughout the world for all of history. While Democrats have going for them that Republicans don’t read these stupid op-eds, there have been a series of ads and other stunts that have gone viral which show that they don’t “get” men, much less respect them. At the same time, they have managed to insult women, minorities, and really anyone who isn’t already a brain-dead Democrat partisan. The following ad- which uses professional actors because it was impossible to find 6 normal heterosexual male Harris supporters- is only the most notorious example:
This video was seemingly made in earnest, though it is not officially affiliated with the campaign. There has been much commentary on it, including from Matt Taibbi, but the overall consensus is that it is absolutely tone deaf and self-sabotaging. It has been suggested by some that the point is to indicate to women that they own the Democrat Party, but that has little utility among their faithful who will vote for them regardless. The only thing I have to add is that it can be hard to recognize self-satire and to an extent they must think this is funny in some way that isn’t clear to us. For example, there are quite a lot of liberals on Twitter who think the popular figure Nick Adams (Alpha Male) is wholly in earnest, because they can’t parse the fact that while he is genuinely a Trump supporter he is also just making shit up and satirizing his own faction. Taibbi said the following:
It is astounding that they could be this ignorant about men, but at the same time it is not surprising. It is unlikely that anyone who can be appealed to through masculinity would vote for Harris under any circumstances. The problems with Democrats and men go back decades, and we talked about masculinity in our society on a recent podcast, so it doesn’t bear going deep into here. I can say though that personally, there are countless times I have encountered situations where I’m told if I think people trashing masculinity refers to me it shows that I am the problem. Democrats partisans have gone so far as to mock the increase in “deaths of despair” among white men saying they gave up as soon as anything got difficult, as if life has not been difficult for the average person through all of history. It is disastrous- both for men and for women who want to find husbands- to have a large population of disaffected and lost men in your society, but this is of no concern to a narrow faction of bitter and neurotic women and feminine men who can only look at genuine manhood with malice.
Just for a personal story of what they attempt to impress in the minds of men, I remember one guy I used to know before I stopped talking to him during covid- who apparently now goes around claiming to be a woman- who shared some meme arguing that boys should be taught that if they ask a girl out and she says no the proper thing to do is cut off all contact with her. This was somehow supposed to empower women and prevent harassment while making boys understand how to interact with women. In reality, it requires profound blindness to not see it separates women into a dichotomy of those who will have sex with you and basically bitches who hate you that you are not to speak to. No space was left for trying to get to know her better, doing something to impress her, or even just the possibility that in her feminine nature she was hoping a man would try a little harder. [In reality, one study showed that 45% of men between 18 and 25 have never approached a women in person, while 77% of women between 18 and 30 wish men approached them more, making this one of countless examples of how ideological liberals and leftists are totally detached from how normal people feel.]
Men have been bombarded with these negative messages about their presence and unfortunately many lack fathers at home and go to schools where 75% of teachers are women and many of the 25% of men are effeminate or clueless liberals like Tim Walz. This was the appeal of Jordan Peterson, who often just said things any father could have told you 50 years ago. He is [or was, at least] like Red Forman with academic language, and still that was revolutionary for men who had never been told anything true their entire lives. Instead, boys grow up dragged down and henpecked by the schoolmarms and incompetent administrators and bureaucrats who make up the Democrat base. We learned recently that many of these women would rather encounter a bear in the woods than a man, demonstrating a completely irrational fear of men [they may tell you that women are statistically more likely to be hurt by a man than a bear, but if these women could understand statistics they would know that is nonsense because of the much greater frequency with which women are around men.]
The point is that Democrats are heavily reliant on single women, the childless cat ladies JD Vance referenced once years ago and which the media then claimed he won’t stop talking about. It’s understandable that they need to play to the fears and hatreds of their base, which is a big part of what electoral politics is. Republicans do this too: men fear that an illegal immigrant will take their job or rape their wife or daughter. However, illegal immigrants don’t take the pointless email jobs Democrat women have and the Democrat core of childless single women don’t have spouses and children to protect, so instead they fear men and having children. It’s a deeply unhealthy pathology. The difference between fearmongering about these two things as political strategies is that illegal immigrants can’t vote whereas men make up roughly half of the electorate [though women do vote at slightly higher rates than men.] I have long said it was in a way an admirably bold strategy for Democrats to scapegoat the general public as they did with covid, or to scapegoat men as they did well before that, but now that they’ve seen the error in their ways we can assume it was just stupidity. However, it is easier to identify a problem than it is to fix it. It is fine to say they need more male voters, but their attempt to win them has been a farce.
Once Kamala Harris was selected to replace Joe Biden, Democrats immediately got to work on trying to appeal to men, having always blamed men for Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016 [which is accurate in terms of voting numbers, but men aren’t at fault that she is a horrible person and candidate, or that Democrats chose her knowing her enormous negatives with that demographic.] Tim Walz, who looks like the guy nothing is going right for at the beginning of a commercial, was their initial portrait of masculinity. He is said to be popular among women who hate their fathers, which is a substantial portion of Democrat voters. It is curious to note about this ham-fisted campaign that many have said transgender ideology reduces womanhood to its accouterments, which is to say wearing lipstick and earrings and the like, but we are learning that is how they view manhood as well. For example, they gave us this video of Tim Walz changing his air filter, perhaps the only under the hood maintenance the average Democrat woman knows how to do, but it is meant to show he is a man’s man.
