The Left genuinely believes there are only two types of men in the entire United States: Type number one: Ned Flanders, a hyper-religious, archaic traditionalist with a few strangely gay vibes. Type number two: A character straight out of Starship Troopers: The militant, hyper-nationalist authoritarian who probably wants to rape home invaders.
For them, James Talarico is type number one; Graham Platner is type number two.
One of the most amusing aspects of the 2024 election was the Democratic Party’s realization that it had lost men — that they were increasingly trending toward the political Right.
There’s a reason for that.
Men are not really fond of a party that calls them “toxic” and sees them as, at best, superfluous, or treats them as dumb hacks, or as “rapey” bros, or as Bible-thumping elders from The Handmaid’s Tale.
Men aren’t fond of a party that says that women can be men, that men can be women, and that the world would be better off without men in positions of power.
The Left openly campaigned against men, and then they lost. Now they’re trying to win men back.
The problem is that the Left has alienated men for so long that they don’t even know how to talk to men anymore.
They don’t know men. They don’t know how men act like, how men behave, or what men are interested in. To the Left, men are a foreign population, and so they treat them that way.
This is why you hear lefties ask this ridiculous question: Where is the Left-wing Joe Rogan? Where is he?
The answer is obvious.
It’s Joe Rogan.
Joe is not a Right-winger at all. He voted for Bernie Sanders. He humors conspiracy nuts and socialists. He’s not socially conservative. He’s not economically conservative. He’s not a foreign policy hawk. Joe would vote Democrat in pretty much any election in which Democrats weren’t totally crazy and didn’t demonstrate their hatred and alienation of men.
But that is way too much for the Left. Instead, they’re trotting out Jennifer Welch — a screechy Left-wing lady — as the answer to Joe Rogan, or maybe Hasan Piker, a communist who wears Cartier and pearl necklaces and loves terrorists and foreign dictatorships. Or maybe they trot out the bros from Pod Save America.
Men are now foreigners in the land of the Left.
When the Left thinks of men, they think of stereotypes. And when they appeal to men, they try to play on those stereotypes.
This is why you get the bizarre contrast between James Talarico and Graham Platner. James Talarico is stereotype number one: Ned Flanders, ULTRAMAN.
They ran this guy who claims to thump the Bible but doesn’t believe in anything remotely biblical. For him, biblical values are passé, so he takes a bunch of radical Left-wing values and then reads them into the vaguest statements from the Bible.
They’re surprised that the Right doesn’t love this and that the Right is annoyed by James Talarico’s ridiculous cosplay as Biblical Man, because the guy says that God has no gender, or is gender-free, or is trans, or he talks about trans kids, or he talks about how his campaign is meat-free.
And then men go, “Nope.”
Now, in Texas — where Democrats are going to waste an awful lot of money trying to defeat Ken Paxton, and they’re going to lose anyway — the Left is trying to trans Talarico’s positions.
Remember, Talarico is incredibly far Left. He was just quoted saying, “I oppose gender reassignment surgeries for minors.”
That’s weird because you’ll recall that he also talked about the magic of trans kids not that long ago. He was asked, “Something that you love that’s not family or friends.” He replied, “I love and say this because it’s on my mind. The trans children who showed up yesterday at the state Capitol to advocate for their humanity. They shouldn’t have to, but it was an inspiration to watch.”
He’s also the same guy who said that God was non-binary. Not that God has no gender, which of course is true because He’s God, but that God is non-binary in a sort of bizarre LGBTQ+- way.
He voted against SB 14 in 2023, which banned gender affirming care. He also voted against HB 25 in 2021, which required K-12 students in public schools to compete exclusively on the sports teams of their same biological sex. His church funds abortions and transgender summer camps.
He lied about his views on border security as well, now saying he’s tough on the issue.
In 2021, he voted against House Bill 9, which appropriated $1.8 billion for border security operations. In 2023, he also voted against SB 4, which authorized Texas law enforcement to arrest and detain illegal immigrants. He also says that he’s a Second Amendment defender.
He’s transing all of his politics right now. He’s pretending to be something he is not. He’s trying to run as a moderate Republican, which he is not. He’s a very, very far-Left Democrat.
“I am a believer in the Second Amendment,” he said. “I don’t pick and choose between the Bill of Rights. I believe in the Second Amendment just as much as I believe in the First. We have a right to bear arms to protect ourselves, our families. We have a right to own weapons for sport or for hunting. But like any freedom in the Bill of Rights, it’s not absolute.”
In 2021, he voted against HB 1927. That’s a constitutional carry bill that allowed Texans 21 and over to carry handguns without obtaining a state permit.
Talarico is pretending to want to protect oil and gas jobs, which he absolutely does not. He said in the past, “You can’t call yourself a Christian and destroy God’s creation with greenhouse gases.”
In 2023, he voted against HB 1500, which was an energy bill that would overhaul the Texas electrical grid and restrict renewable energy expansion.
He’s a down-the-line Democrat, and now he’s trying to flip himself into a Republican. It’s important to understand why Democrats were so high on this guy in the first place.
Why did they think that this was the guy? Answer: the effect.
They think the Republicans in Texas are Bible-thumpers who look like they come straight out of Howdy Doody, and if they just cosplay that, if they pretend to be that, then Republicans will be happy.
So they grab the trappings of masculinity, and then they’re surprised when the Right doesn’t respond to those trappings, because we can see that they are pretending.
We can see that it’s a Halloween costume, and it all comes off as fake on James Talarico.
There’s stereotype number two that the Left believes about men, which is that they are toxic Starship Trooper dudes. Men are “rough and tumble.” They don’t ever shave, and they look kind of messy and treat women like trash.
They have two pictures of what men look like: one is Ned Flanders, and the other is Starship Troopers. Neither one is what men look like from a traditional conservative viewpoint, because the trappings are what matter.
It’s the duties that matter. So a traditional conservative man can look like a lawyer who works at the office, but provides for his family and his kids, and is a ranking member of the church. He does all of those things.
Or a traditional man can look like a member of the military who is out defending the country, comes home to his wife and kids, and works a blue-collar job.
It can run the gamut. As long as you fulfill the basic duties of a man, you are a man, but the Left doesn’t believe in those duties. So instead they come up with the aesthetics. They look at Graham Platner and they say, “This is what a man looks like. A man looks like this toxic dude.”
The idea for the Left is what if we grabbed the costume of masculinity and poured a bunch of socialist nonsense into it? It is so obviously a costume for him that it’s ridiculous. The man went to a private school when he was growing up. His parents bought a house for him. He runs an oyster farm that basically supplies only his mom’s restaurant, and they somehow had to turn this guy into the blue-collar hero of the day.
Democrats look at Trump voters and think, “Who could we get to appeal to those voters? Maybe if we got our own guy who has sexual abuse problems, but he talks in a rumbly voice and doesn’t shave, and pretends that he’s a manly, manly man, what if we do that?”
Manliness in the traditional conservative sense is about fulfilling the duties of men. That is what manliness is.
The Left doesn’t understand manliness.
So what are the things that men ought to do?
They ought to get married to a woman, protect that woman, and then they ought to protect the children that they have and bring up with that woman. And that doesn’t just mean physical defense. It also means protecting and providing for that family. It means they are to do their duty in the community, defend it, and build its social fabric.
These are the things that men traditionally do. A man is defined by the things that he does.
But according to the Left, which doesn’t believe any of those things, it is not the duty of a man to get married. They don’t believe it’s a man’s duty to have children and raise them. They do not believe it’s a man’s job to build the social fabric of his community; these are all duties.
And the Left traditionally does not believe in social duties. They believe in “rights,” which means liberation from duties.
They wear the mask of masculinity. They’re happy with the guy who thumps the Bible, so long as he doesn’t read any of the 95% of it that talks about human responsibilities. They like it a little bit where it talks about being nice to strangers, but they don’t care about the rest of the Bible at all. They don’t like the rest of the Bible at all.
The picture of masculinity for Democrats is completely stereotypical because they have no idea of what masculinity ought to look like.
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