RON HART: The Democrats Awkwardly Try to Fix Their “Men” Problem

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RON HART: The Democrats Awkwardly Try to Fix Their “Men” Problem

For years, the Democratic Party treated men like a museum treats a taxidermied woolly mammoth: historically important, dirty, and best observed from behind a velvet rope.

Then 2024 happened. Black, white, and Hispanic men shifted to voting Republican. So, instead of any real self-reflection, the Dems did what they do best: formed a secret committee.

The answer, according to $20 million worth of a Democrat consultant’s work, was just the wrong “messaging.” Not that young men feel invisible, think Democrats are weak, and do not believe the party has their back. They just need the Dems to message them more, to see it their way.

This study even turned men off. We can smell a focus group bro from three states away. Use the word “intersectionality” just once, and you lose us.(RELATED: Young Men Fail To Name Any Masculine Dem Leaders Not Named Obama)

The man problem is not complicated. A generation of boys grew up hearing from the left that their default setting was toxicity, that their sports were imperialist, that their jokes required a sensitivity reader, and that their ambition was a privilege to be checked. Libs define the world as the oppressed and their oppressors. Men are always the oppressors.

Men did not respond to this narrative by joining an Oprah book club on healthy masculinity. They responded by putting on headphones, listening to the manosphere, and turning to online porn and gambling. And they just checked out.

The solution was not “maybe stop talking about half the country like a public-health outbreak.” The solution Dems landed on was, in their stage-managed, focus-group-driven and manipulative way of thinking, to pick a few Democrats, put them in camo and give them a gun that someone from the props department has to explain (think “Tampon Tim” Walz). That will win the rubes over.

For a party that cannot define the “W” in WNBA, this is not surprising. The WNBA even introduced an intentional “non-binary mascot” to show how woke they are. They should call it the “James Talarico.” (RELATED: RON HART: The WNBA — Giving Prison Basketball A Bad Name)

The Dems’ great white hope was former Congressman Eric Swalwell. He likes the ladies and loved doing selfies of himself bench-pressing. Sadly, he went down in flames. No one could have seen it coming. Four different women accused him of sexual assault. And, just to double back on the ole consensual sex thing to give it one more try, the married Swalwell had an affair with a Chinese spy.

After years of searching, it seems the Dems have anointed Jon Osoff as the new Eric Swalwell, who likely won his seat in the dubious COVID, Stacy Abrams NGO-orchestrated mail-in ballot year of 2020. Jon is a nepo baby who has never had a real job. He worked/interned for Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson. Remember, Ole Hank thought that if Marines went to the island of Guam, it would “tip over and capsize.” Smart guy.

Ossoff flexed his man card by implying Trump has a sexual relationship with his assistant, Natalie Harp. Democrats hate this beautiful young woman so much that an Obama-appointed DC judge ordered her to gain 75 pounds and get a nose ring.

In reality, Democrats don’t have many manly men. Libs treat successful men like Elon Musk the way the women of The View treat all men: with contempt. It’s funny that the angriest women in America are named Sunny, Whoopi, Rosie, and Joy. Elon has hundreds of inventions to help mankind, from the Tesla to SpaceX efforts. Whoopi has invented nothing if you don’t count the cushion.

Libs correct men on toxic and stigmatizing wording. They correct us when we say words like “lived experience.” In their lexicon, the homeless are “the unhoused,” slaves are to be called “enslaved persons,” and illegal immigrants should be referred to privately as “mail-in-voters.”

Dems are still haplessly hunting a “Rogan of the left.” The manosphere is not a radio frequency you can hack by saying “Siri, what do men like?” It is a temperament: anti-lecture, high-agency, and allergic to people who talk about “permission structures” and “preferred pronouns.” Stop treating men like a workplace lecture from Human Resources.

Down the stretch of my career in 2020 during “Woke 1,” the HR department hated me. They did seminars on toxic masculinity and asked me to be Exhibit A.

To be fair, I came up on Wall Street in the “Wolf of Wall Street” era. We had interoffice sex, drugs, drinking, midget wrestling, and a lot of grab-ass. No one was ever late for work.

A libertarian op-ed humorist and award-winning author, Ron does commentary on radio and TV. He can be contacted at [email protected] or @RonaldHart on Twitter.

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