In what may be the cringiest political campaign in American history Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have apparently decided that adopting the urban Beta Male as their campaign mascot will be part of their closing pitch to America’s undecided voters.
In stark contrast to former President Donald Trump’s natural vigor from the golf course to the campaign trail, to border and national security policy, Harris and Walz have apparently decided to celebrate the wimpy and flaccid in everything they communicate.
This astonishing celebration of pasty liberalism began with the Democrats’ universally panned $10 million “White Dudes for Harris” media campaign.
If a majority of the American electorate were sociology professors at northeastern liberal arts colleges Harris would have the election locked-up. Fortunately for the future of western civilization Harris’s Beta Male pitch isn’t selling.
A recent New York Times/Siena poll found Trump leading among male voters by 11 points. Among the demographic, 42 percent said Trump's policies helped them personally. Trump won the demographic by 2 points in 2020.
Other polls have Trump up as much as 16 points among male voters.
The establishment media and Hollywood’s not-so-subtle corporate embrace of Cultural Marxism hasn’t helped the Democrats with male voters. On any given network TV show men and boys are bombarded with images and dialogue in commercials and entertainment painting the male as the clumsy oaf, the butt of the joke, the uncool dork, or the gape-toothed Red Neck. Little wonder that men, and white men especially, are alienated from the Democratic Party and their cultural allies.
Democrats and their allies in the establishment media simplistically chalk-up Harris’s poor showing with male voters as misogyny and the idea that ingrained cultural patriarchy simply won’t allow American men to make the intellectual jump necessary to give themselves permission to vote for a woman for President.
That one-dimensional view of the majority of male voters is a big part of the Democrats’ problem in reaching men outside their progressive urban strongholds.
Having bought into Cultural Marxism and the idea that all societal relationships are based on that of oppressor and oppressed, it never dawns on them that the males they deride cross all demographic lines and when Democrats constantly communicate that males are natural oppressors, and that traditional ideas about male-female roles are deserving of contempt and derision, they are alienating African American and Hispanic male voters as well.
And the polls show this antipathy for men and their traditional roles is hurting Democrats, and Kamala Harris in particular, with all male voting blocs.
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found Hispanic men are also more likely than Hispanic women to say Trump is the candidate who represents their views on key issues. About half of Hispanic women voters think Harris would make a good president, compared to only about one-third of Hispanic men, underscoring the potential importance of this group, which both candidates have courted aggressively.
And now African American men are starting to move away from Democrats, sparking a frantic effort on the part of the Harris campaign to deploy Barack Obama to try to woo them back.
“My understanding, based on reports I'm getting from campaigns and communities, is that we have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running," said former President Obama, according to reporting by NPR.
That lack of enthusiasm for Harris, he said, “seems to be more pronounced with the brothers.”
He chided voters who were voting for Trump or not casting a vote at all.
“And you are thinking about sitting out?” he said. “Part of it makes me think — and I'm speaking to men directly — part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren't feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you're coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.”
In other words, according to Barack Obama, if you don’t vote for Kamala Harris, you’re a race-traitor and misogynist.
So central are race and gender oppression to the Democrat worldview that by hectoring his audience to ignore policy and make race and gender the determinative factors in choosing a candidate Obama brought the Harris campaign messaging full circle back to the Cultural Marxist themes that got it into a thirty-point gender gap to begin with.
Such a pitch is unlikely to persuade many Harris-skeptical Black men, but it may serve to convince many white and Hispanic men that Kamala Harris is all about race and gender.
Obama’s appeal, deemed by Black Men for Trump Advisory Board members to be deeply insulting in its call for Black men to support Kamala Harris based solely on her skin color, rather than her policies, was more damaging than Democrats are likely to admit.
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