When the Justice Department released the latest batch of Epstein <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-department-releases-millions-more-epstein-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a>, I didn’t read them like a political junkie or a conspiracy sleuth. I read them like a father.
While commentators argue over names and timelines, my kids are learning something far more important: what America rewards in men, what it excuses, and what it quietly tolerates when power is involved. The lesson is ugly.
Strip away the sensationalism, and one reality stands out: This was a scandal almost entirely driven by men. These men were powerful, successful, and even married. They had children, platforms, influence, and every reason to know better.
What the Epstein documents really expose isn’t just corruption or crime. They expose a collapse in male self-government, and that collapse doesn’t stay contained at the top. It trickles down.
I have sons. I coach youth sports. I sit in dugouts tying cleats and listening to boys talk before they’ve learned how to filter themselves. And I can tell you this: Young men are desperate for clarity. They are constantly scanning the world for cues about what manhood actually means. What they’re being shown right now is poison.
They see men at the highest levels of society who preach intelligence, leadership, and sophistication while privately living like entitled boys. These men treat marriage as ornamental, fidelity as optional, and women as consumables. To them, accountability is something for lesser people.
If you want to know why so many young men are cynical about commitment, look no further. The message couldn’t be clearer: Success buys indulgence, power bends rules, and discipline is for men without leverage. That’s not masculinity. That’s moral anarchy.
Real masculinity has always been rooted in restraint, in self-command, and in the ability to say “no” when saying “yes” would be easy, pleasurable, and unlikely to bring consequences. Every culture that survived understood this. Boys became men not by indulging appetite, but by mastering it. Strength wasn’t measured by conquest, but by responsibility. Authority was paired with obligation.
Somewhere along the way, we replaced that vision with something hollow. Today, male excess is explained rather than condemned. Cheating is framed as temptation instead of betrayal. Sexual misconduct is “complicated.” Men who fail morally are treated as tragic figures rather than accountable ones.
When those men are powerful enough, the system rushes in to cushion the fall. The Epstein documents confirm what parents already fear: Elite men are often insulated from the standards they publicly demand from everyone else.
And kids notice. They don’t think in terms of legal nuance or sealed records. They think in terms of patterns: who gets punished, who gets protected, who gets forgiven, and who gets erased. The pattern they’re seeing is corrosive.
Ideas are no longer coming from parents. They are coming from culture, and culture is being shaped in part by exactly the kinds of men exposed in these documents. This is how a crisis of masculinity forms — not overnight, but drip by drip. Boys are taught that desire is destiny and discipline is repression. Men in positions of authority model indulgence instead of honor. Consequences disappear for the powerful and multiply for the ordinary. Then we act shocked when young men delay marriage, distrust institutions, and treat adulthood like a suggestion instead of a calling.
The Epstein documents don’t just reveal wrongdoing. They reveal what happens when men stop seeing themselves as stewards — of their families, their influence, and their responsibilities — and start seeing themselves as entitled consumers. That’s not liberation. It’s decay.
As a father, I don’t want my sons growing up believing masculinity is defined by appetite. I want them to know that real strength is the ability to govern yourself when no one is watching. Leadership without accountability is corruption, power without virtue is dangerous, and no amount of success excuses dishonor.
The Epstein documents make it painfully clear that when men fail to hold themselves to high standards, the damage spreads far beyond their own lives. Families fracture, trust erodes, cynicism grows, and the next generation learns the wrong lesson. This isn’t about moral grandstanding or pretending men are perfect. It’s about refusing to normalize male collapse.
If we want better men tomorrow, we need to tell the truth today. We need to stop excusing behavior simply because it’s common among elites. We need to stop confusing sophistication with virtue and access with worth.
The Epstein documents don’t just raise the question of who was involved. They ask who we’re becoming and whether we’re finally willing to teach our sons that manhood isn’t about what you can get away with, but what you choose not to do.
If we fail at that, then the next scandal won’t be a surprise. It will be the inheritance we handed them.
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Gates Garcia is the host of the YouTube show and podcast “We The People.” Follow him on Instagram and X @GatesGarciaFL.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Editor’s note: This week, we’re reprinting some of our best stories from the past year. In this piece, originally published in June, Gates Garcia offers a reminder that true masculinity is not toxic.
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The Left’s successful rebranding of masculinity as “toxic” didn’t just rewrite a dictionary entry — it rewired the cultural DNA that once produced great men.
In 2018, the American Psychological Association updated its Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men, effectively declaring stoicism, risk-taking, and competitiveness — the building blocks of masculine virtue — “<a href="https://www.apa.org/about/policy/boys-men-practice-guidelines.pdf">psychologically harmful</a>.”  
Within months, Gillette aired its infamous &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYaY2Kb_PKI">We Believe</a>&#8220; commercial, scolding ordinary dads at backyard barbecues while implying every son harbored a bully within. Seemingly overnight, &#8220;toxic&#8221; became the default adjective attached to manhood.
But this cultural ambush was decades in the making. It has its roots in second-wave feminism, which in the 1960s began reframing male strength as patriarchal oppression. By the ’80s and ’90s, freshly-minted gender studies departments were churning out theses that branded healthy male assertiveness “hegemonic.”
On television, the upstanding patriarch of “Father Knows Best” gave way to the beer-bellied, weak-willed Al Bundy. When clickbait culture arrived in the 2000s, every societal ill — from climate change to mass shootings — found a convenient culprit in “<a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/17/gun-violence-masculinity-216321/">traditional masculinity</a>.”
C.S. Lewis foresaw the danger. “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise,” he warned in The Abolition of Man — adding the <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/113211-we-make-men-without-chests-and-expect-from-them-virtue?utm_source=chatgpt.com">punchline</a> our era can’t escape: “We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”
The cultural costs are no laughing matter. Today, 17.6 million American children — nearly one in four — <a href="https://www.fatherhood.org/father-absence-statistic">grow up without a father in the home</a>. Their odds of suffering are grim: Barack Obama, citing Census data in 2008, <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2008/06/text-of-obamas-fatherhood-speech-011094?">noted</a> that such children are “five times more likely to live in poverty… nine times more likely to drop out of school, and 20 times more likely to end up in prison.”
If only he did something about it. 
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Almost 60 years earlier, Daniel Patrick Moynihan <a href="https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Moynihan%27s%20The%20Negro%20Family.pdf">sounded the same alarm</a>, saying, “the deterioration of the fabric of &#8230; society is the deterioration of the &#8230; family.” At the time, he was dismissed as an alarmist. The empty chairs around dinner tables prove him prophetic.
Classrooms reveal the next domino. The same ideology that pathologized masculine energy has left boys academically stranded. On the <a href="https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/reading/2022">2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress</a>, 8th-grade girls outread boys by nine scale points, continuing an unbroken gender gap that dates to 1992. Overall scores for both sexes hit the lowest level on record. 
College quads tell the same tale. Men have fallen to just <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/12/18/fewer-young-men-are-in-college-especially-at-4-year-schools/">44% of American undergraduates</a>, a gap that’s widened every year since 2011. UNESCO, surveying 140 countries, now calls boys’ lagging literacy a “<a href="https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/leave-no-child-behind-global-report-boys-disengagement-education">growing global crisis</a>.” Christina Hoff Sommers <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9334744-boys-today-bear-the-burden-of-several-powerful-cultural-trends">captures the cultural headwind:</a> a school climate that “valorizes feelings and denigrates competition and risk…views masculinity as predatory. Natural male exuberance is no longer tolerated.” 
Why did “toxic masculinity” stick? Because it performed a linguistic jujitsu: attach a moral defect to the identity you want to erase, then offer “liberation” through re-education. Courage degenerates into “aggression,” leadership into “oppression,” fatherhood into “patriarchal privilege.” The outcome is predictable: abolish the virtues that civilize male strength, then lament the violence or apathy that follows.
Yet the data refuse to cooperate with the narrative. Children with involved fathers are <a href="https://www.lakeconews.com/news/community/commentary/56433-delcol-happy-father-s-day">40% less likely to repeat a grade</a>, more likely to earn As, and far less prone to behavioral problems. Even the <a href="https://www.apa.org/about/policy/boys-men-practice-guidelines.pdf">APA guidelines</a> — often cited as proof of masculinity’s hazards — concede that male risk-taking can be “harnessed for good” when directed toward service and innovation.
Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child <a href="https://developingchild.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/The-Science-of-Resilience2.pdf">summarizes</a> decades of research showing that self-regulation and disciplined resilience — traits once labeled stoic — buffer children from stress and reduce lifetime mental-health risk. In other words, the same virtues our culture now brands “toxic” are the ones empirical science says we need.
Trust the science.
Conservatives bear some blame for this inversion. While we tallied marginal-tax victories, Hollywood and higher ed rewrote the story of manhood. Institutions we once guided — churches, Scouts, civic clubs — sat vacant as HR departments filled the void. The cockpit was empty. The Left merely climbed in and took control.
We didn’t arrive here by accident. The cultural collapse around masculinity wasn’t inevitable — it was permitted. While conservatives focused on policy wins and economic metrics, the Left waged a full-spectrum cultural campaign that redefined manhood itself. They infiltrated the classroom, the newsroom, and the writers&#8217; room. They turned moral virtue into pathology and repackaged fatherhood as oppression. And we let them. Not out of malice, but out of misplaced trust — that truth would prevail unaided, that tradition could defend itself, that boys would become men by default.
Now, we stand in the wreckage of that assumption. A generation of boys has been raised to doubt their instincts, to apologize for their strength, and to see their fathers as liabilities rather than legacies. This is not just a political failure — it’s a civilizational one. But it also means the stakes are finally clear. If the conservative movement wants to conserve anything worth passing down, it must begin with this: the restoration of masculine virtue. Not nostalgia. Not anger. But clarity. The recognition that the war on manhood is really a war on order, on protection, on the nuclear family.
We’re not at the end of this story — we’re at the hinge. The institutions may be hollow, the narratives poisoned, but the hunger for truth remains. And in that hunger lies our moment. Not to manage decline, but to name it. Not to tinker around the edges, but to tell the truth loudly enough that our sons can hear it. Before we rebuild, we must remember who we are — and what we allowed to be stolen in the dark.
Masculinity is not toxic — it’s virtuous. When we reclaim that distinction, we invite our sons to stand tall instead of apologizing for existing — and we give civilization the allies it deserves.
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Gates Garcia is the host of the YouTube show and podcast &#8220;We The People.&#8221; Follow him on Instagram and X @GatesGarciaFL.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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For an episode that aired on Sunday evening, UFC President Dana White told CBS&#8217;s &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; that in his mind, there was no such thing as being &#8220;too masculine.&#8221;
White, who spoke at the Republican National Conventions in 2016 and 2024 and supported President Donald Trump through three campaigns, spoke with correspondent Jon Wertheim about the concept of &#8220;toxic masculinity&#8221; and whether or not the culture was shifting around that idea.
Wertheim began by quoting a term he said White had used in the past, saying that he&#8217;d decried the &#8220;wussification of America&#8221; — and White suggested that the word he&#8217;d used had actually begun with a different letter, but that he understood why that might be censored for broadcast television.
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&#8220;How can somebody be too masculine? Is that a possibility? Can you be too masculine?&#8221;
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White went on to say that the reason the UFC was so successful — and growing — was that they knew their audience and were &#8220;unapologetically masculine.&#8221;
&#8220;Can this bubble over to too much?&#8221; Wertheim asked. &#8220;When you hear toxic masculinity, what do you–&#8221;
&#8220;Haha what’s that mean?&#8221; White laughed as he interrupted Wertheim.
&#8220;You tell me,&#8221; Wertheim challenged.
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&#8220;You just said it,&#8221; White pushed back. &#8220;What’s the definition of ‘toxic’? … How can somebody be too masculine? Can you be too masculine?&#8221;
&#8220;You tell me,&#8221; Wertheim repeated. &#8220;Do you think so?&#8221;
&#8220;No. The answer is hell no,&#8221; White declared.
The UFC is expected to hold an event at the White House in 2026 as part of America&#8217;s 250th birthday festivities — an event that both Trump and White have independently confirmed.
&#8220;We’re literally going to take over Washington, D.C., that week. We’re going to do the weigh-ins there. We’re going to have the weigh-in events. And we’ll have fan events all week. We’re going to do our expo there and just a total Washington, D.C., takeover,&#8221; White said of the planned event.

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Taylor Swift is officially off the market, and it’s no coincidence that America’s most beloved pop star didn’t say yes to another brooding actor, a melodramatic musician, or even some tortured poet. She ended up engaged to 6-foot-5, 250-pound Travis Kelce, a Super Bowl champ with a well-groomed mustache and a macho swagger. 
In other words, after years of dating men typically referred to as artsy “soy boys,” Swift said yes to the quintessential jock.
Swift may be an unapologetic lib, and Kelce may have shilled for Pfizer during the COVID pandemic, but this celebrity pairing actually bodes well for conservatives. Someone with her massive cultural influence over women is bound to start trends, and thanks to this latest development, old-school proposals and traditional marriage might be officially back in style. It’s only a matter of time before wedding-themed earworms start taking over the airwaves. 
Photos of the staged proposal were straight out of Swift&#8217;s wildest dreams. Kelce got down on one knee in a sun-dappled garden. The pop star is wearing a sundress and a soft smile. Swift posted a photo of the ring alongside the caption, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.” 
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For this particular Hollywood love story, there was no girl bossing, no modern twists, no glorification of living in sin forever. This viral moment had everyone swooning because it was – gasp! – traditional. That makes it a cultural win for conservatives, even if the main characters are leftists through and through.
And there’s something very significant about the man Swift chose to spend forever with. This wasn’t a petulant man-child or anti-hero with a guitar and endless pathos. This is a bruising, six-foot-five athlete who knows how to win and isn’t afraid to go after what he wants.
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Kelce took the lead from the very outset of their relationship. In 2023, during Swift’s Kansas City tour stop, he confessed on his “New Heights” podcast that he tried to give her a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it. When she didn’t get it, he joked about being “butt-hurt.”
Swift later said she thought his attempt was “metal as hell.” The nation’s biggest pop star admitted that confidence and directness are attractive. In an age when men are told to be sensitive, to cry, to ask permission before winking at a woman or sending a DM, Kelce came in strong with a solid attempt without any creepy overture. That’s the difference between being a man who leads and a boy who cries about not getting his way.
In so many ways, this isn’t just another celebrity love story. It’s a reminder of something our culture has tried to forget: women are biologically wired to be drawn to strength, confidence, and dominance. For centuries, and across cultures, overtly masculine traits like physical strength and the ability to protect and provide have been considered signs of a good partnership for women. These days, it&#8217;s written off as dated, old-fashioned, or, worse, &#8220;toxic.&#8221; But Swift’s decision to commit to Kelce speaks to the truth of women’s attraction to certain types of men on a deeper level.
Women are naturally drawn to a strong jawline, a muscular build, and height as cues of sound genetic fitness. This hasn’t changed for much of human history, despite so many current attempts to downplay it. 
It’s easy to see the difference when comparing her romance with Kelce to Swift’s ex-lovers. The “Shake It Off” singer has famously dated a lineup of artsy men, including indie actors and sensitive musicians who made more appearances in her lyrics than they did in the spotlight. This may have been a boon for fans craving the next great breakup song, but it wasn’t ideal for Swift herself. 
Joe Jonas. Jake Gyllenhaal. Lucas Till. John Mayer. Harry Styles. Joe Alwyn. Swift’s list of exes sounds like a who’s who list in the tortured soul competition she knows all too well. 
Kelce also doesn&#8217;t appear threatened by Swift’s fame or popularity. As a professional athlete, he&#8217;s accustomed to playing for tens of thousands of fans on any given Sunday. And even if Swift is on a different level in terms of fame and notoriety, so far, he hasn’t appeared fazed by the newfound attention. The NFL star seems smitten, just like the rest of her fans. 
Underneath all the glitz and glamour, this story is simple. Taylor Swift, the most successful female artist of her generation, chose strength. She chose a man who could protect, provide, and lead. She chose someone who isn’t afraid of pressure. 
That’s not an accident. It’s not a coincidence. It’s biology at work. Real men, whether they’re referred to as jocks, providers, or alphas, are usually winners because they&#8217;re wired for it. Feminists can whine about &#8220;toxic masculinity,&#8221; but human nature is what it is. Women like Swift, at their core, seek strength that complements their own. As she sings in &#8220;So High School,&#8221; a song inspired by Kelce, &#8220;You know how to ball, I know Aristotle.&#8221; 
It&#8217;s poetic. After so many artsy flings with overly sensitive men, she&#8217;s going home with the jock. Ladies, take note: nature always wins.

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No More Tortured Poets: Taylor Swift Picked The Gym Teacher

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On June 15, masculinity planted its flag in the public square and dared the culture to yank it out.
Father’s Day 2025 wasn’t a Hallmark pit stop. It was the inflection point of my <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/gates-garcia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two recent Daily Wire op-eds</a> — on the hijacking of manhood and its collateral damage — we’re racing toward.
This piece is the capstone. The frontier has been claimed. The real work begins now.
<a href="https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/father-s-day-spending-to-reach-record-24-billion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Consumers shelled out a record $24 billion</a> honoring dad, the most the National Retail Federation has ever logged. Boys needed reassurance. Fathers needed reassurance. Families needed reassurance. And they finally got some.
The White House echoed the mood. In his Father’s Day proclamation, President Donald Trump praised dads as “custodians of our strength…protectors of our security and safety,” tying fatherhood to tough-on-crime, border-security, and anti-gender-ideology policies.
A year earlier, President Joe Biden had joked in Scranton that he wanted to “smack” the “macho guys” who backed Trump — an encore to his 2018 boast about taking Trump “behind the gym.” One Oval Office mocked male toughness; the other affirmed it. The times they are a-changin’.
The weekend also delivered a storybook moment on the 18th green at Oakmont. J.J. Spaun made a bleary-eyed 3:00 a.m. CVS run when his toddler began vomiting, then birdied four of his final nine holes to win the U.S. Open on Father’s Day — trophy in one hand, daughters in the other. Paternal duty and professional excellence aren’t rivals; they’re complementary capabilities.
Corporate America is relearning the same lesson. Dove Men+Care’s new <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYTK2db2uzA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Care Makes a Dad </a>ads showcase hands-on fathers instead of worn-in La-Z-Boys. Bud Light is still bleeding from its 2023 misfire — sales linger about 30% lower, and brand equity has vaporized by the tens of billions. Mock men and you lose money. Honor them, and the cash register rings.
Entrepreneurs have noticed. NBA forward Jonathan Isaac’s faith-first label UNITUS can’t keep inventory in stock, and it has company. Men’s-grooming upstart Duke Cannon, which markets “big-ass bricks of soap” with unapologetically rugged copy, logged a <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kaleighmoore/2022/12/14/duke-cannon-is-reshaping-marketing-messaging-in-the-mens-grooming-category-heres-how/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">70% year-over-year jump</a> in facial-care sales at Target, while Black Rifle Coffee Company — founded by Special Forces veterans and pitched as java “for America’s heroes” — is projecting <a href="https://www.just-drinks.com/news/black-rifle-coffee-sets-out-three-year-growth-aspirations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">double-digit EBITDA growth</a> over the next three years on revenue already north of $100 million.
Capitol Hill is chasing the cultural tailwind. Republican Reps. Byron Donalds (FL) and Burgess Owens (UT) introduced <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/487" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a bill</a> declaring fatherhood “essential to the development of all children” and calling for mentorship, re-entry help, and tax policies that keep dads in the home. Former NFL safety Jack Brewer launched a <a href="https://www.cbs42.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/821303856/the-jack-brewer-foundation-celebrates-grand-opening-of-jbfs-national-fatherhood-center-in-washington-d-c/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Fatherhood Center</a> to lobby for the bill.
Hard numbers justify the urgency. About <a href="https://www.fatherhood.org/father-absence-statistic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">17.6 million children still lack a resident dad</a> — too many — but for the first time in a generation, that figure is inching downward, with <a href="https://www.fatherhood.org/championing-fatherhood/press-release-children-living-with-a-father-in-the-home-reaches-34-year-high" target="_blank" rel="noopener">75% of American kids now living with a father.</a> Prime-age male labor-force participation sits at <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300001" target="_blank" rel="noopener">67.8</a>%, well above its pandemic nadir yet a full generation below post-war norms.
Even the Federal Reserve lists the shortfall as a macro-economic drag. In classrooms, 8th grade boys trail girls by <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/subject/publications/stt2024/pdf/2024220NY8.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">eight points </a>in reading, a gap that drags on lifetime earnings.
Yet the renaissance has begun. High school shop class <a href="https://fortune.com/2024/04/04/gen-z-choosing-trade-schools-college-welders-carpenters-six-figure-job/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">enrollment is rising</a> as districts finance welding bays and construction labs. <a href="https://promisekeepers.org/wakeupcall/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Promise Keepers’</a> stadium events are back. NFL legend Jason Kelce hit Cannes Lions in a “Bluey suit” just to thrill his four daughters. Alexis de Tocqueville would nod knowingly — he wrote in 1835 that American fathers ruled not through fear but through “the affection and experience of age.”
Cultural commentators are rediscovering frontier wisdom. John Wayne reminded us, “You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman,” while Theodore Roosevelt insisted the nation must cultivate “the iron qualities that go with true manhood.” We spend endless airtime debating how to raise great men. Father’s Day 2025 finally laid the foundation by teaching boys what it means to be a man at all.
It also marked a defiant rebuke to the ideology that has long tried to erase the family altogether. Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto” lists “abolition of the family” among its necessary steps toward collectivism, and Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors once boasted, “We are trained Marxists.”
Marxism dissolves individual loyalties — faith, family, even biological sex — so only the collective remains. Father’s Day 2025, with its record spending, viral dad-stories, and presidential blessing, was a nationwide celebration in Marxism’s face, a reminder that liberty begins with individuals anchored in families, not citizens melted into a hive.
The stakes are concrete. Cities that nurture father engagement post <a href="https://publichealth.uic.edu/news-stories/new-study-finds-mentorship-lowers-rates-of-youth-crime-and-delinquency/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">double-digit drops in juvenile crime</a>; every percentage-point rise in male labor-force participation adds billions to GDP. The formula is simple: slash fatherlessness and flood the workforce with men who show up. Close the classroom reading gap, and everything else falls into place.
Critics say re-centering men marginalizes women, but a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/20/fathers-have-unique-effect-on-childrens-educational-outcomes-study-finds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2023 University of Leeds study</a> found that when dads spend as little as 10 minutes a day reading or playing with their kids, daughters register a measurable jump in early test scores. <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2015/12/2015-12-17_parenting-in-america_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pew analysis</a> shows families that keep dad in the home slash mom-and-child poverty rates by more than two-to-one.
Momentum matters, but so does personal action. Now it’s our turn. Mentor a boy for an hour each week; shop brands that honor fathers; prod your school board to revive shop class; stretch Father’s Day into a civic festival so virtue becomes visible.
Historian Arnold Toynbee said civilizations rise when they successfully respond to great challenges. America’s challenge is fatherlessness. The answer is taking shape. Manhood isn’t baggage, it’s jet fuel for a free nation — raw strength harnessed by honor, propelling liberty farther than any bureaucrat’s decree ever will.
Gates Garcia is the host of the YouTube show and podcast We The People. Follow him on IG and X @GatesGarciaFL
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President Donald Trump on Friday issued an unapologetic, pro-masculinity Father&#8217;s Day proclamation, honoring fathers and father figures across the nation for their strength and leadership.
The tone of the proclamation runs counter to left-wing messaging that masculinity is often &#8220;toxic,&#8221; and the differences between the sexes are merely an unhealthy social construct.
&#8220;America&#8217;s fathers are the custodians of our strength, the leaders of our families, and the protectors of our security and safety,&#8221; it <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/fathers-day-2025/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reads</a>. &#8220;This Father&#8217;s Day, my Administration pays tribute to every father whose fierce love, heroic devotion, and inspiring example are molding the next generation.&#8221;
&#8220;Whether by birth, adoption, or father figures, America&#8217;s dads help shape the character and future of our Nation,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;Through their example, they instill strength, integrity, and perseverance in their children. They rise early, work late, make sacrifices, and remain steadfast in their love and commitment to their families.&#8221;
The president added that fathers &#8220;lead through action, speak with purpose, and impart wisdom honed by experience.&#8221;
&#8220;From their children&#8217;s earliest days as infants through their journey into adulthood, fathers leave a lasting influence that reaches far beyond the walls of their homes,&#8221; the proclamation said. &#8220;The presence of a father also serves to plant the seeds of virtue and instill American values in their children. For many, dads are the first to teach the value of hard work, love of country, and the importance of living with conviction. With every generation, these lessons are carried forth.&#8221;
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Trump said his administration will continue to stand with fathers and families to shield children from &#8220;the toxic lies of gender ideology&#8221; and keep &#8220;our neighborhoods safe by backing our law enforcement, crushing violent crime, and ensuring our southern border remains sealed and secure.&#8221;
&#8220;Together, we are building a Nation where fathers can lead with strength, protect their families, and pass on the timeless values that make America great,&#8221; he wrote.
&#8220;Today, we celebrate the invaluable role our fathers play in shaping our families, guiding our communities, and strengthening our country &#8212; and we offer our unending thanks for their leadership, selflessness, and inspiration,&#8221; Trump closed.
In recent years, Democrats have routinely refused to recognize the differences between the genders, both biological and social. For example, numerous prominent Democrats have referred to pregnant women and mothers as &#8220;<a href="https://nypost.com/2021/05/08/missouri-congresswoman-under-fire-for-calling-women-birthing-people/">birthing people</a>&#8221; or women as &#8220;<a href="https://www.them.us/story/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-slams-newspaper-mocking-trans-inclusive-language">menstruating people</a>.&#8221; There has also been much discourse diminishing traditionally masculine qualities as &#8220;<a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/aocs-frustration-with-the-toxic-masculinity-of-bernie-bros-revealed-in-new-book/">toxic</a>,&#8221; specifically as it pertains to white males.

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For the past week, Americans have been glued to an ongoing social media exchange between Olympic legend Simone Biles and former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines.
The confrontation began when Gaines shared a photo of a Minnesota high school girls&#8217; softball championship team whose star player was reportedly a boy, prompting Biles to attack Gaines on social media, calling her &#8220;truly sick&#8221; and a &#8220;sore loser&#8221; who was campaigning against transgender athletes simply because she had lost a race.
Gaines fired back, “If Simone’s inclusive dream came true, she would have zero Olympic medals and no one would even know who she is.”
The thread rocketed across timelines, not only because it was fiery, but because it issued a referendum on manhood. It asked every male coach, father, and teammate: Are you strong enough to sit this one out so women can compete, or will you weaponize your strength to win medals never meant for you?
In a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-left-hijacked-masculinity-and-why-thats-bad-for-society?author=Gates+Garcia&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=How+The+Left+Hijacked+Masculinity+%E2%80%94+And+Why+That%E2%80%99s+Bad+For+Society" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent piece</a> for The Daily Wire, I wrote about the left’s slow, hostile co-opting of the word “masculinity.” But it’s not enough to identify what went wrong. In order to help save American men — and American society — we need to ask ourselves: what should men get right?
The Biles-Gaines saga gives us an opportunity to answer that question.
Riley Gaines has fought valiantly to keep men out of women’s sports, as have many other brave female athletes. But this saga should cause all American men to ask themselves: Where were the men in this situation? Where were the fathers telling their sons, “However you identify, you may not line up in the girls’ starting blocks,” or telling their daughters, “If anyone tries to silence your voice, Dad’s voice will echo louder”?
Perhaps the men were on the sidelines because for years, feminists and the left have told them that being aggressive in defense of what was right was “toxic.” Maybe they were worried that speaking out would make them seem dangerous — one of the worst things they can do.
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to be a man. True masculinity is a form of strength that heals instead of harms — dangerous on purpose, but disciplined by love.
Healthy masculinity begins with a posture, not a press release — a posture that leans into risk so others can rest easy. Walk into any volunteer fire station at 3:00 a.m. and you’ll find fathers who left warm beds to chase a propane smell no one else noticed, just in case. They aren’t reckless —  they’re responsible. They understand what G.K. Chesterton meant when he <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/94304-the-true-soldier-fights-not-because-he-hates-what-is" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
Translation: Real manhood is the antidote to cultural decay, not its cause. Or, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/crain-and-company" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crain &amp; Co. </a>co-host David Cone said recently on my podcast, <a href="https://wethepeoplemedia.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">We The People</a>, “Toxic masculinity is a contradiction of terms. You can’t have the modifier of a word be the antithesis of the word.”
True masculinity can never be toxic, because it’s covenantal: it binds itself to duties no government can assign and no ideology can erase. Scripture sketches the outline — husbands are to love their wives as Christ loved the Church — and history fills in the colors, from St. Joseph guiding Mary into exile to Sgt. William Carney grabbing the colors at Fort Wagner and refusing to let them fall. Chesterton called it “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chesterton-Romance-Orthodoxy-Making-1874-1908/dp/0199582017" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Romance of Orthodoxy</a>” — the adventure of guarding what is good. That romance includes a listening ear. As psychologist Jordan Peterson notes, “a harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very, very dangerous man who has that under voluntary control.”
So, how do we ensure that men understand and inhabit this balance? We start at home.
A 2024 <a href="https://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-024-02182-x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meta-analysis in BMC Psychology</a> found that children with engaged fathers show higher emotional resilience and academic grit. Yet engagement means more than hugs. It means clearly explaining to children the difference between right and wrong, and raising them to do what’s right. And of course, it means boldly, unapologetically modeling what choosing the right looks like.
When dads speak with that mix of empathy and iron, cultural confusion suddenly looks more like noise than destiny.
Sons who see their dads get up to feed a baby brother or sister so mom can sleep will grow up to be teenagers who step between a bully and a fellow classmate, and then men who shovel their widowed neighbor’s driveway without boasting about it on Instagram. Or perhaps even men who fight to protect women&#8217;s sports.
Nothing can replace fathers, but they’re not the only ones who can inculcate real masculinity in young men. A high school athletic director can set policy that preserves female divisions without waiting on Congress. A pastor can preach Ephesians 5 (“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the Church…) and then host a father-daughter self-defense night in the fellowship hall. Each act is a brick in a wall that tells our daughters, you’re safe here.
Notice what’s missing from that blueprint: self-flagellation. True masculinity doesn’t apologize for being strong; it apologizes for being selfish. It’s the difference between a freight train hauling relief supplies through the night and one that plows through a residential crossing because the engineer craves a thrill. Conservatives should celebrate the power while condemning the derailment. The Centre for Male Psychology calls this “<a href="https://www.centreformalepsychology.com/male-psychology-magazine-listings/the-provider-role-indicates-that-masculinity-is-prosocial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pro-social masculinity</a>,” but your grandpa called it being a gentleman.
The same culture that coined “toxic masculinity” is starving for the genuine article. Simone Biles has earned her medals, and Riley Gaines has earned her scars. Now the question is, will American men earn back their reputation as protectors?
If they do — if we do — the next generation of daughters won’t need to tweet for fairness. They’ll be too busy celebrating it on a podium their fathers kept level.
Gates Garcia is the host of the YouTube show and podcast &#8220;We The People.&#8221; Follow him on IG and X @GatesGarciaFL
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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“Gladiator II” actor Paul Mescal said Hollywood is changing its approach to leading males. 
The 29-year-old Irish star made the remarks while promoting his new gay romantic drama, “History of Sound,” which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. 
“It’s ever shifting,” he said during a press conference for the film, per <a href="https://variety.com/2025/film/festivals/paul-mescal-masculinity-brokeback-mountain-cannes-1236406568/">Variety</a>. “I think maybe in cinema we’re moving away from the traditional, alpha, leading male characters. I don’t think the film is defining or attempting to redefine masculinity, I think it is being very subjective to the relationship between [the movie’s characters] Lionel and David.”
This was similar to comments he made last year about the state of masculinity in modern society.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a sort of crisis in masculinity I think at the moment and what it means to be a man,” Mescal <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/andrew-scott-and-paul-mescal-on-toxic-masculinity-the-most-macho-man-will-be-the-first-to-break-13054759">told</a> Sky News at the time. “We have all these things within us, there&#8217;s no one way of being, there just isn&#8217;t, and sometimes the people who are the most outwardly macho in some ways, are the people who aren&#8217;t going to be there for you emotionally.”
Mescal also bristled at the comparisons being made between “History of Sound” and the popular gay romance “Brokeback Mountain” (2005), which starred Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. 
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“I personally don’t see the parallels at all with ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ other than we spent a little time in a tent,” he said. “[‘Brokeback’] is a beautiful film but it is dealing with the idea of repression … I find those comparisons relatively lazy and frustrating, but for the most part I think the relationship I have to the film is born out of the fact that it’s a celebration between these men’s love and not the repression of their sexuality.”
Per the movie’s description, “History of Sound” is about “two young men &#8212; Lionel (Paul Mescal) and David (Josh O&#8217;Connor) &#8212; in the shadows of WWI who are determined to record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen. As they begin to log the events, the two fall in love.”
Previously, Mescal defended himself against being cast as a gay man in films despite being heterosexual in real life. 
“It depends [on] who’s in charge of telling the story,” the actor <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/article/paul-mescal-im-not-just-the-token-irish-hunk-jrhcs688f?region=global">told</a> The Sunday Times while discussing another project, “All of Us Strangers.”
“The issue is that there have been so many queer performances in cinema that have been offensive, but that’s because the filmmakers and the actors have been careless,” he added.

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A number of Republicans fired back on Tuesday after Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) claimed that he could &#8220;kick most of their ass.&#8221;
Walz made the assertions during a conversation with fellow Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) for his new podcast after complaining about the fact that his own masculinity had been called into question during his bid for the vice presidency alongside running mate and former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024.
Walz said that it was a mistake for Democrats to let Republicans define issues like masculinity before claiming that he could &#8220;kick most of their ass&#8221; and suggesting that they only attacked him because he &#8220;scared them a little bit&#8221; — but his critics made it clear in their responses that was not the case.
Knox County, Tennessee, Mayor Glenn Jacobs — perhaps better known by his WWE name Kane — posted several responses to Walz&#8217;s comments.
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&#8220;LOL, the toxic masculinity is shocking!&#8221; he commented.
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LOL, the toxic masculinity is shocking!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 <a href="https://t.co/324MLTzBJH">https://t.co/324MLTzBJH</a>
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&#8220;What do you say, @PlanetTyrus? Me and you against the Blue State Buffoons&#8211;Mr. Hair Gel #2 and Coach Command Sergeant Major Guy?&#8221; Jacobs said next, adding, &#8220;Word is that @harryjsisson and @davidhogg111 want in. I&#8217;m shaking!&#8221;
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Word is that <a href="https://twitter.com/harryjsisson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@harryjsisson</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/davidhogg111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@davidhogg111</a> want in. I&#39;m shaking!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Jacobs then veered into a series of AI-generated images, saying, &#8220;With that steely stare and chiseled physique, who wouldn&#8217;t be intimidated seeing this across the ring from you?&#8221;
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&#8220;In honor of our official state song, introducing Tim &#8216;Tennessee&#8217; Walz. Who wants to do-si-do?&#8221; Jacobs added.
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In honor of our official state song, introducing Tim &quot;Tennessee&quot; Walz. Who wants to do-si-do? <a href="https://t.co/6Aok8WbyCt">pic.twitter.com/6Aok8WbyCt</a>
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Former NWA wrestler Tyrus also weighed in on Walz&#8217;s comments, adding, &#8220;He really said that …. @GovTimWalz I’m your huckleberry that’s just my game say when …&#8221;
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He really said that …. <a href="https://twitter.com/GovTimWalz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovTimWalz</a> I’m your huckleberry that’s just my game say when … <a href="https://t.co/CZ2JYQQ2Dx">https://t.co/CZ2JYQQ2Dx</a>
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Trans-identifying former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner shot back, &#8220;I am more ‘masculine’ than this [clown emoji] Gov Walz.&#8221;
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I am more ‘masculine’ than this 🤡 Gov Walz <a href="https://t.co/EjW2fU1hI7">https://t.co/EjW2fU1hI7</a>
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&#8220;I’m doubling down on Tim Walz. Let’s get in the ring for charity!&#8221; an Army combat veteran and Purple Heart recipient posted.
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I’m doubling down on Tim Walz.
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&#8220;Jazz hands former VP loser Tim Walz told Gavin Newsome (sic) that he&#8230;could ‘kick Trump supporter’s asses’ in a WWE match. Come at me bro,&#8221; another said.
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Jazz hands former VP loser Tim Walz told Gavin Newsome that he he could ‘kick Trump supporter’s asses’ in a WWE match. 
Come at me bro 😂 <a href="https://t.co/n1L8qnkBOh">pic.twitter.com/n1L8qnkBOh</a>
&mdash; Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 (@saras76) <a href="https://twitter.com/saras76/status/1902073492482228505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Republican strategist Andrew Surabian jabbed at Walz&#8217;s complicated relationship with the truth in his response, saying, &#8220;Some people may say that this is a particularly stupid comment because WWE isn&#8217;t real fighting, but In fairness to Tim Walz, WWE is closer to being real fighting than Timmy is to being a real combat veteran.&#8221;
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Some people may say that this is a particularly stupid comment because WWE isn&#39;t real fighting, but In fairness to Tim Walz, WWE is closer to being real fighting than Timmy is to being a real combat veteran. <a href="https://t.co/eluNi3fb4S">https://t.co/eluNi3fb4S</a>
&mdash; Andrew Surabian (@Surabees) <a href="https://twitter.com/Surabees/status/1902141802645278813?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Dear Tim Walz, I’m a dyed in the wool Trump supporter. If your little fabulous ass thinks you can beat my ass, I’m your huckleberry. Ask Charles Barkley how it worked out for him. I don’t back down from anyone. Name the time and place. I’ll happily come and serve you a two piece, some biscuits, a full order of sides, and a complimentary drink. Super-sized. Let a brutha know. No hugs. Zeek,&#8221; Zeek Arkham added.
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Dear Tim Walz,
I’m a dyed in the wool Trump supporter. 
If your little fabulous ass thinks you can beat my ass, I’m your huckleberry.
Ask Charles Barkley how it worked out for him. I don’t back down from anyone.
Name the time and place. I’ll happily come and serve you a two… <a href="https://t.co/vdjfBlTSPX">https://t.co/vdjfBlTSPX</a> <a href="https://t.co/17DjaFWEGy">pic.twitter.com/17DjaFWEGy</a>
&mdash; Zeek Arkham 🇺🇸 (@ZeekArkham) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZeekArkham/status/1902121736545386796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Tim Walz Campaigns In Tucson

Republicans Have Field Day After Tim Walz Claims He Can ‘Kick Most Of Their A**’

Republicans Have Field Day After Tim Walz Claims He Can 'Kick Most Of Their A**'

Gavin Newsom

Social Issues

Tim Walz

Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) complained about the fact that critics had cast doubt on his &#8220;masculinity,&#8221; particularly during the 2024 presidential election while he&#8217;d been vying for the vice presidency alongside running mate, former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Walz voiced his frustrations during a conversation with Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) for his new podcast, noting that he&#8217;d even been criticized once for using a straw.
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🚨NEW: Tim Walz GRIPES about attacks on his masculinity during 2024 campaign🚨
&quot;It just baffled me how much time they spent trying to attack me — that I wasn&#39;t like masculine enough in their vision. Like, I would have never believed this.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/3p4YkCpslv">pic.twitter.com/3p4YkCpslv</a>
&mdash; Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1902066667980779737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;It just baffled me how much time they spent trying to attack me — that I wasn&#8217;t like masculine enough in their vision. Like, I would have never believed this,&#8221; Walz said. &#8220;I saw Fox News did like a couple days because I used a straw. And I&#8217;m like, &#8216;What the hell? What am I — How else do you drink a milkshake?&#8217; type of thing.&#8221;
&#8220;But they focused on it obsessively, which I think, again, is their obsession, their weirdness,&#8221; Walz continued. &#8220;We buy their frame on these issues of sexuality, you know, but their whole thing was — is that they spent all their time, these guys, on Fox News that &#8216;Walz is gay,&#8217; &#8216;not masculine,&#8217; you know, and &#8216;he doesn&#8217;t coach football the way he should&#8217; &#8230; what do you think about this?&#8221;
Walz turned to Newsom, who said, &#8220;This notion of masculinity is deeply part of it. I mean, I think it goes — you can look at the reasons why we&#8217;ve had this sort of dialectic over the Me Too movement, we&#8217;ve had this dialectic even prior to the Me Too movement and this notion of —&#8221;
&#8220;How do you fight it?&#8221; Walz interrupted. When Newsom attempted to answer, the Minnesota governor interrupted again, claiming, &#8220;I think I could kick most of their a**! I do think that &#8230; I know I can outrun them. I don&#8217;t know if we&#8217;re going to fall into that place where we, okay, we challenge you to, you know, a WWE fight here, type of thing.&#8221;
The conversation about masculinity — and &#8220;toxicity in masculinity&#8221; — continued with Newsom arguing that too many people had conflated the two ideas: &#8220;We&#8217;re going to have to work on that a little bit.&#8221;
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Tampon Tim Walz on his masculinity: “I think I scare them a little bit.” <a href="https://t.co/oiU36BvGky">pic.twitter.com/oiU36BvGky</a>
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Walz followed by claiming that he believed conservatives were actually intimidated by him, adding, &#8220;I think some of us scare them. I think I scare them a little bit, it&#8217;s why they spend so much time on this. No, I&#8217;m serious, because I can fix a truck. They know I&#8217;m not bull-s****ing on this. But I&#8217;m not putting this in people&#8217;s grill. I don&#8217;t know if — my identity is not hunting. My identity is not football coaching. My identity is not, you know, a beard and a truck.&#8221;
Walz took criticism primarily for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/4-pinocchios-wapo-fact-checks-tim-walzs-latest-lie-about-jd-vance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lies he&#8217;s told</a> throughout his career — some of which pertained to his time as an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spin-cycle-democrats-media-battle-reality-to-lay-down-cover-fire-for-walz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assistant football coach</a> — and a campaign stunt in which he took reporters hunting with him and then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/24-year-military-veteran-and-self-described-gun-guy-tim-walz-struggles-to-wrangle-his-own-firearm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">struggled mightily</a> to load his own firearm.

JD Vance And Tim Walz Face Off In Vice Presidential Debate In New York

Tim Walz Baffled Americans Don’t Think He’s ‘Masculine’: ‘I Could Kick Most Of Their A**’

Tim Walz Baffled Americans Don't Think He's 'Masculine': 'I Think I Could Kick Most Of Their A**'

2024 Election

Media

Vice President JD Vance delivered a strong message to young people — particularly young men — during his remarks on Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
Vance, speaking with Mercedes Schlapp, offered a message from President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration to young people in general before pivoting to directly address young men.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> gives his message to young people: &quot;We want you to be able to buy a home, we want you to be able to work a good job, we want you to be able to raise your kids according to the values you believe in, and we want you to be able to build a nice life in this country.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/di1lf2UNES">pic.twitter.com/di1lf2UNES</a>
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&#8220;My message to young people generally is we&#8217;re trying to make your life better, and that is the simple thrust of President Trump&#8217;s policy,&#8221; Vance began. &#8220;We want you to be able to buy a home, we want you to be able to work a good job, we want you to be able to raise your kids, like I said, according to the values that you believe in, and we want you to be able to build a nice life in this country that all of us love.&#8221;
Vance went on to note that those younger than 30 would be the ones impacted the longest by policies that were implemented in the coming years, whether those policies be good or bad: &#8220;I want you guys to think about the future and ask yourself, &#8216;Do you want safe communities?&#8217; &#8216;Do you want a prosperous life?&#8217; &#8216;Do you want to be able to work a good job, or do you want that job shipped off to China or somewhere else?&#8217; We&#8217;re fighting for you every single day.&#8221;
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Pointing ahead to the 2026 midterms, Vance noted that unless Republicans keep winning, the ability to implement Trump&#8217;s agenda could be very short-lived.
He then turned to the young men in the audience, offering another message to them specifically: &#8220;You ask me — my message to young men is — I think that our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge. You should try to cast aside your family, you should try to suppress what makes you a young man in the first place. And I think that my message to young men is don&#8217;t allow this broken culture to send you a message that you&#8217;re a bad person because you&#8217;re a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends, or because you&#8217;re competitive.&#8221;
&#8220;The cultural message, and I think the president&#8217;s and mine is the exact opposite, but our cultural message — I think that it wants to turn everybody, whether male or female, into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same, and act the same,&#8221; Vance continued. &#8220;We actually think God made male and female for a purpose, and we want you guys to thrive as young men and as young women, and we&#8217;re going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do that.&#8221;
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JD VANCE: Our culture wants to turn everybody into androgynous idiots. <a href="https://t.co/MiHRFHuAZf">pic.twitter.com/MiHRFHuAZf</a>
&mdash; Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1892605156547547531?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Conservatives Gather For Annual CPAC Conference In Washington DC

Vance Delivers Strong Message To Young Men: ‘Don’t Allow This Broken Culture’ To Dictate Who You Are

Vance Delivers Strong Message To Young Men: 'Don't Allow This Broken Culture' To Dictate Who You Are

CPAC

JD Vance

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the Right must stop cheering on bad people who don’t care about their principles.
Today’s case: Andrew Tate.
Now, let me say at the outset, I’m not upset at all with anyone interviewing Tate. Go for it. Have at it. There are lots of great questions to ask him. But that’s not what’s happening here. What’s happening is that people are dishonestly conflating “interviewing” Tate with cheering on Tate — applauding him, talking about how brave and wonderful he is while he rips off thousands of people with his scam Hustlers University and preaches the virtue of treating women in a way you would never allow anyone to treat your wife or daughter.
No one is saying you can’t have Tate on your show. It’s a free country. What I’m saying is that if you claim you are a conservative and have someone truly disgusting on your show, and you proceed to tout them, praise them, and nod along to everything they say, you’re doing more than “platforming” — you are becoming a propagandist for that person. A person who purports to stand for Biblical values, American values, and traditional values has a moral obligation to ask Tate hard questions about his actions, beliefs, and past — not help him falsely rewrite his legal record or ignore all he has actually said while nodding enthusiastically.
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Tate isn’t a conservative politician trying to push conservative policies, with part of the job being to separate out his agenda from his personal behavior. He’s an online troll who revels in precisely the evils conservatives hate. It’s his entire, self-stated persona. If you don’t ask about that, you’re not doing your job.
Now, I get the appeal of Andrew Tate. For decades, the hatred of traditional masculinity has been so strong, so thoroughgoing throughout the media and politics, that people have run away from traditional masculinity altogether. Young men were basically told they were useless, if not outright toxic. That left a vacuum. And Tate filled that vacuum with masculinity, but its ugliest iteration — not a responsible masculinity that protects women, children, and civilization, but the sort of masculinity that tears everything good down.
Tate’s basically playing a WWE heel, and he knows it. He says he wants to be the most hated man on Earth, and he professes to make money off of that — and that’s what he’s telling the truth about.
But here’s the thing: Andrew Tate is a crap sandwich. He presents differently to different audiences: He’ll present as a sort of low-rent anti-feminist talking head for people on the Right, bashing Left-wing wokeism; he’ll present as an anti-Semitic radical who’s willing to violate any taboo for the fringes; and he’ll pretend to be an upstanding person who cares about family values when he’s sitting down with someone conservative.
But what he really is, in the end, is a con artist.
And an evil con artist at that.
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