With the ascension of Saint Kamala, we are now watching the Mean Girl rebranding of the Democratic Party.
It has to be the biggest miscalculation in political history.
As polls show America’s young men are lurching rightward at a rapid pace, the Democratic brand has finally evolved into the party of scolding shrews, nagging Karens and “preachy females,” as Dem dinosaur James Carville calls them.
Its image is tied to a type of unserious, self-involved, neurotic, dogmatic Dem-fem who insists on telling you her pronouns and whose highest goal is abortion on demand right up until the moment of birth.
She is terrified of men unless they are transgender or submissive “white dudes for Kamala” with man buns.
Now that Scranton Joe is out of the picture and Kamala is at the helm, the feminizing trend is accelerating the party into certain electoral oblivion (with the obvious caveat for election fraud).
Male flight to Trump
Dem-fems have propelled young men, ages 18 to 29, into the arms of the primally masculine Donald Trump at an astonishing pace, placing Republicans on a trajectory to win the testosterone demographic for the first time in more than two decades, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll.
The majority of young men now support Trump, a swing of 29 points since 2020.
The strange celebration of Kamala as the Girl Power Queen Bee atop a giant coconut, as New York Magazine styled her on its cover this week, is hardly likely to woo back those voters.
The Democrats’ new chick-centric bent is behind attempts to boomerang Kamala’s well-catalogued “weird” persona back onto JD Vance and Trump.?
“Weird and creepy” is how Dem-fems feel about normal red-blooded men, and because they are so self-centered and cosseted, they think all women feel the same way.
Kamala actually is weird, so no doubt the word has dominated focus group sessions about her.
The cackle, for one thing, is weird.
It is always startlingly inappropriate and seems to have less to do with mirth than changing the subject.
We haven’t heard the cackle for a while, so maybe the strategists have told her to tone it down.?
Then there are her strange nonsense riddles which she repeats time and again as if everyone wasn’t mystified the first time.
A classic in the genre is: “What can be, unburdened by what has been.”
Another phrase that she likes so much, she once repeated it four times in three consecutive sentences is “the significance of the passage of time.”?
Or how about: “It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day.”
She also has created unwitting comedy gold with her gushing odes to Venn diagrams and school buses.
These Kamalaisms are so eccentric, they’d almost be endearing, if she weren’t aiming to be leader of the free world.?
But rather than embracing her inner weirdo, Shamala is running away from it, like everything else about her past, from the radical left positions she has always espoused, to her very racial identity, once Indian, now black, as Trump pointed out Wednesday, to outrage from the usual suspects.
Dubbing Vance and Trump “weird” smells like a pre-emptive strike dreamed up by professional image-makers.
It might have protected Kamala from being portrayed as “weird,” but in one fell swoop it has neutralized their attempt to paint Trump as an existential threat to democracy because he’s now just a harmless weirdo.
Cat ladies’ claws out
The “weird” line of attack is also schoolyard payback to Vance, who characterized Democrats a few years back as “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made.”?
Oppo researchers dredged up the quote last week, sending Dem-fems into apoplexy.
“My God, they went after cat people,” exclaimed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Kamala VP hopeful.
“Good luck with that. Turn on the internet and see what cat people do when you go after them.”?
He’s not wrong, judging by the ferocity of the attacks on Vance, which show that childless cat ladies have cornered the market on umbrage.
“JD Vance is weird,” said a Harris 2024 campaign email last week with the headline, “JD Vance Is a Creep (Who Wants to Ban Abortion Nationwide).”
On “The View,” the ancestral home of Dem-fems, one ditzy guest read aloud from her DNC talking points to nail the “GOP is weird” theme.?
“Monitoring girls’ periods? Weird. Banning books? Coming for drag shows? That’s weird.”
Someone even made up a story that Vance once “had sex with a couch cushion” and then the AP fact-checked the obvious joke as if it were in any way plausible just to seed it into mainstream discourse.
Calling Vance “weird” is really a dog whistle to bigots who have been muttering about his conversion to Catholicism.
In their twisted minds, anyone who is conservative and Catholic is a da Vinci Code weirdo.?
He’s a prickly guy lacking the Trump charm and political smarts, but the vitriol with which the Democratic Party and its media lickspittles have been going after him shows how scared they are that he is developing the philosophical underpinnings of a new populist politics that they like to call Christian nationalism but is just a family-centered set of policies that allow American society to heal itself from within.?
And considering Vance’s dysfunctional childhood as the son of an addict, they are cruel to mock him for idealizing the child-centered family that he never had.?
All they are doing is proving they don’t like men, not projecting a more positive message that the Democratic Party is pro-women.
Obviously it isn’t.
Just take the callousness showed by its leaders to the rape and murder of women and girls by the illegal migrants they allowed into the country — mostly military-age men from the Third World with distinctly retrograde views about female empowerment.
Go figure.
Anti-woman vibe
Or take the accidental admission by Pete Buttigieg, another VP hopeful, who told his fellow “white dudes” on the Harris campaign livestream that abortion is great for men because it frees them from the responsibility.
“What’s really filling my sails right now” [is that] “men are also more free in a country where we have a president who stands up for things like access to abortion care.”?
The embrace of transgenderism by Kamala and the rest of her party is another example of the anti-woman vibe.
She even launched her campaign on the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” TV show.
Elevating a niche fetish to a central campaign role is not merely a matter of being inclusive, but is about empowering a subversive political movement that ultimately seeks to erase women and their private spaces.
From the party that gave us “What is a woman?” Supreme Court picks, it’s hardly surprising that Kamala backs men in women’s sport and boys in girls’ bathrooms.
But pro-women she is not.