                                        {"id":4610,"date":"2026-07-16T09:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4610"},"modified":"2026-07-16T09:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:36:23","slug":"miranda-devine-the-dems-attempt-to-become-the-party-of-manly-men-proves-theyre-getting-dumb-and-dumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4610","title":{"rendered":"Miranda Devine: The Dems&#8217; attempt to become the party of &#8216;manly men&#8217; proves they&#8217;re getting dumb and dumber"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>It\u2019s hilarious that snot-nosed socialist svengali Morris Katz, the Mamdani whisperer, is reportedly trash-talking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s chances as the Democrat presidential candidate for 2028 \u2014 reportedly because he says a woman can\u2019t win.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4608\">NYC\u2019s homeless camp chaos puts all of New York \u2014 and Mamdani\u2019s \u2018big plans\u2019 \u2014 in danger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The left always eats its own in the end.<\/p>\n<p>We knew Democrats were trying to rebrand as the party of \u201cManly Men\u201d but they\u2019ve really taken this new masculinity jag off a cliff.<\/p>\n<p>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 prot\u00e9g\u00e9 to be the Dems\u2019 2028 nominee \u2014 mainly because he is a man.<\/p>\n<p>The rationale of the 26-year-old Mamdani adviser was explained by a source quoted in The Post this week:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou 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\u2019s a woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hope the pussy hats are paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats doubled down on their \u201cThe Future is Female\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<h2>Kam \u2018Brat Summer\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>By the time of the disastrous \u00adKamala \u201cBrat Summer\u201d campaign of 2024, men had deserted the Democrats in droves.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cmanly men,\u201d as The Atlantic calls them.<\/p>\n<p>Who could forget \u201cWhite Dudes for Harris\u201d?<\/p>\n<p><em>Every week<\/em>, <strong><em>Post columnist Miranda Devine sits down for exclusive and candid conversations with the most influential disruptors in Washington on \u2018Pod Force One.\u2019 Subscribe here!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<iframe allow=\"camera; fullscreen;\" class=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"352\" loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.nypost.com\/protected-iframe\/e1f613d59ffd9cd7d76ab71b596e3706\" width=\"100%\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>They tried \u201cTampon Tim\u201d Walz as uptalking Kamala Harris\u2019 running mate, thinking he was just goofy and woke enough to reassure their base of man-haters that they weren\u2019t dealing with a threatening alpha like Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Walz was a mincing, calculating phony, from his folksy \u201cmidwestern dad\u201d schtick to his photo-op hunting trip in Minnesota in which he fumbled awkwardly with a shotgun. Needless to say, he flopped.<\/p>\n<p>Then the party turned to alleged vegan Texan Senate hopeful James Talarico, whose nickname is \u201cLow T.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Say no more.<\/p>\n<p>The final evolution of the search for the ideal male avatar resulted in Platner, the ersatz, gravelly-voiced Maine \u201coysterman\u201d with the Nazi tattoo who put the toxic back in masculinity.<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4606\">Missouri teen Gabbriana Boyster shot dead in home as mom makes horrifying discovery; 3 friends charged<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a war within a war.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>In a narrow, 14-13 vote, the committee decided to put off the decision until its convention in \u00adAugust 2027.<\/p>\n<h2>Dudes only<\/h2>\n<p>With Platner gone, the DSA clearly needs time to recruit another \u201cmanly man\u201d alternative to the lowly female.<\/p>\n<p>He wasn\u2019t born in this country, but you know they\u2019d love to enlist Hasan Piker, the dog-torturing Turkish-American Twitch streamer who is the DSA\u2019s poster boy of masculinity.<\/p>\n<p>He tells his 2.7 million followers \u201cAmerica deserved 9\/11\u201d and \u201cit doesn\u2019t matter if f\u2013king rapes happened on October 7th.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He has joked about men date-raping women on campus and told his followers to \u201ckill\u201d people he doesn\u2019t like and \u201clet the streets soak in their red-capitalist blood.\u201d Perfect!<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The DSA Dems are so far gone, they have had to team up with \u00admisogynistic Islamo-supremacist types to inject testosterone back into the party.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2018s habit of throwing homosexuals off rooftops is labeled \u201cIslamophobic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The political self-harm of their Platner embrace shows Dems will stop at nothing to try to win back the \u201cmanosphere,\u201d especially working-class men who have turned Republican.<\/p>\n<p>But because deep down they hate men, Democrats have no clue about how to appeal to them.<\/p>\n<p>In an inadvertently comical article this week titled \u201cThe Return of the Democratic Manly Man,\u201d The Atlantic chronicles the Democrat quest of \u201cengaging culturally in male spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The main character in the piece is a \u201cBrian Poindexter\u201d 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: \u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with being masculine. It\u2019s OK to be \u2018a manly man.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4604\">The rush to ban Central Park horse carriages is the true cruelty<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sounds very manly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hilarious that snot-nosed socialist svengali Morris Katz, the Mamdani whisperer, is reportedly trash-talking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s chances as the Democrat presidential candidate for 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miranda-devine","category-opinion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Miranda Devine: The Dems&#039; 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