Pater Familias

Today’s Democrat Party did not merely lose. It is lost. It has no focus. It has no center. It has no policy proposals or recommendations. It does not have an agenda. As I pointed out yesterday, it has been reduced to yelling and screaming, ranting and raving, howling in the wind and in the political wilderness.

As James Carville noted, the Democrats chose as the starting quarterback for the Super Bowl-- their seventh string player. They believed that they could trick the nation into thinking that Kamala Harris was competent, even when all the evidence pointed toward an embarrassing level of stupidity.  The joke was on them.

And they went all-in on the notion that the Republican opposition was Hitlerian, fascistic, Nazi-- consummate evil. They could not find a good reason for people to vote for them. So they tried to scare people into voting against Republicans.

Democrats were hoist on their own petard. That would be, on the petard of identity politics. They seem to have calculated that a coalition of the aggrieved and oppressed groups would produce an electoral majority. 

They decided to attack white supremacy, white Christians and toxic males. It turned out that their war against manliness drove large numbers of Americans, of every race and ethnicity, into the arms of Donald Trump.

When professional football players started doing the Trump dance in the endzone,you knew that the Democrats had alienated the nation’s men, and discredited themselves. 

The Democratic Party, for having gotten in bed with feminism once too often, ended up being the party of what James Carville called-- preachy females. One recalls, with some chagrin, the Senate hearings for Trump’s cabinet appointees. And one recalls the female Democratic senators shrieking a torrent of mindless ad hominem arguments.

This left it to Donald Trump to present himself as America’s pater familias.Surely, Hunter Biden’s father could not present himself as father of the decade. Trump had a notably sane and normal family. No one seems to have mentioned this simple fact, but the Trump family was a clear refutation of years worth of feminist railing against the patriarchy.

One remarks, in the world of manliness, that Trump also surrounded himself with tech bros. Not merely the richest men in the country, but Elon Musk’s tech wizards who are currently working to undo the administrative state and to save the nation's fiscal viability.

It is perhaps too obvious to have to say it, but the dozens of tech bros who are working for DOGE are nearly all suffering from toxic masculinity.

Similarly, the Trumpian emphasis on manufacturing and on making things in America appeals to a masculine sensibility. One idiot Congresswomen yesterday opined that there is a man in the word manufacturing. She might also have pointed out that the patriarchy has made it that words like menstruation and menopause also contain men.

So, Trump is working to undo the damage wrought by decades worth of non-stop feminist propaganda. This is the hidden message behind the Trump revolution.

It’s not just about strength. Strength without courage is trigger happy,

And, consider this. Whereas President Trump takes considerable time to answer any and all questions offered by journalists, his predecessor was hiding from the press. That is, he was showing a cowardly face, a fear of direct questions, and a failure to perform.