Miranda Devine: The Dems’ attempt to become the party of ‘manly men’ proves they’re getting dumb and dumber
It’s hilarious that snot-nosed socialist svengali Morris Katz, the Mamdani whisperer, is reportedly trash-talking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chances as the Democrat presidential candidate for 2028 — reportedly because he says a woman can’t win.
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The left always eats its own in the end.
We knew Democrats were trying to rebrand as the party of “Manly Men” but they’ve really taken this new masculinity jag off a cliff.
Katz, who plucked accused rapist Graham Platner out of obscurity only to see him flame out in the Maine Senate race, reportedly wanted his bearded protégé to be the Dems’ 2028 nominee — mainly because he is a man.
The rationale of the 26-year-old Mamdani adviser was explained by a source quoted in The Post this week:
“You make this guy [Platner] senator, and then you make this guy president because, in large part, Morris [Katz] and like this whole sector of the left do not believe that AOC can win because she’s a woman.”
Hope the pussy hats are paying attention.
Democrats doubled down on their “The Future is Female” mission after Hillary Clinton lost in 2016. In the process of demonizing masculinity, they evolved into an unattractive party of suburban scolds and Trump-deranged crazies with a smattering of henpecked beta males and men in dresses for gender balance.
Kam ‘Brat Summer’
By the time of the disastrous Kamala “Brat Summer” campaign of 2024, men had deserted the Democrats in droves.
Suddenly Dems realized that alienating 48% of voters was not such a smart move, so they executed a drastic U-turn and tried to become the party of “manly men,” as The Atlantic calls them.
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They tried “Tampon Tim” Walz as uptalking Kamala Harris’ running mate, thinking he was just goofy and woke enough to reassure their base of man-haters that they weren’t dealing with a threatening alpha like Donald Trump.
Walz was a mincing, calculating phony, from his folksy “midwestern dad” schtick to his photo-op hunting trip in Minnesota in which he fumbled awkwardly with a shotgun. Needless to say, he flopped.
Then the party turned to alleged vegan Texan Senate hopeful James Talarico, whose nickname is “Low T.”
Say no more.
The final evolution of the search for the ideal male avatar resulted in Platner, the ersatz, gravelly-voiced Maine “oysterman” with the Nazi tattoo who put the toxic back in masculinity.
The fact that either Platner or AOC could even be considered a serious presidential candidate shows how broken the Democrat Party is, riven by a simmering civil war with its insurgent communist faction, the DSA, which is now apparently engaged in its own infighting.
It’s a war within a war.
Last weekend’s meeting of the National Political Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America reportedly fractured over whether or not to immediately endorse AOC as their 2028 presidential candidate.
In a narrow, 14-13 vote, the committee decided to put off the decision until its convention in August 2027.
Dudes only
With Platner gone, the DSA clearly needs time to recruit another “manly man” alternative to the lowly female.
He wasn’t born in this country, but you know they’d love to enlist Hasan Piker, the dog-torturing Turkish-American Twitch streamer who is the DSA’s poster boy of masculinity.
He tells his 2.7 million followers “America deserved 9/11” and “it doesn’t matter if f–king rapes happened on October 7th.”
He has joked about men date-raping women on campus and told his followers to “kill” people he doesn’t like and “let the streets soak in their red-capitalist blood.” Perfect!
You could not get a more loathsome example of toxic so-called masculinity this side of Platner, yet Piker is sought after by Democrats from Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed to LA billionaire Tom Steyer to sprinkle his radical misogyny and Jew hatred onto their campaigns.
The DSA Dems are so far gone, they have had to team up with misogynistic Islamo-supremacist types to inject testosterone back into the party.
The so-called red-green alliance sees pro-Palestine marches in which Pride flags fly alongside Hamas and Hezbollah ensigns, and anyone who points out the disconnect between Gays for Palestine and the Islamic world‘s habit of throwing homosexuals off rooftops is labeled “Islamophobic.”
The political self-harm of their Platner embrace shows Dems will stop at nothing to try to win back the “manosphere,” especially working-class men who have turned Republican.
But because deep down they hate men, Democrats have no clue about how to appeal to them.
In an inadvertently comical article this week titled “The Return of the Democratic Manly Man,” The Atlantic chronicles the Democrat quest of “engaging culturally in male spaces.”
The main character in the piece is a “Brian Poindexter” who is running for Congress in Ohio and is described as a union ironworker who wears a hard hat, drives a pickup truck and says things like: “There’s nothing wrong with being masculine. It’s OK to be ‘a manly man.’ ”
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Sounds very manly.
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