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A Lesson For Democrats — Don’t Be Weird

A lot of you people sound nuts.

It is unsurprising that a Donald Trump campaign ad featuring the tagline “Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you” was effective in the 2024 presidential campaign. Indeed, a pro-Kamala Harris PAC says the spot, which featured a clip of Harris endorsing state-funded sex-change operations for prisoners, “shifted the race 2.7 percentage points in Mr. Trump’s favor after viewers watched it.”

Now, one suspects most normies aren’t only turned off by “they/them” because it’s grammatically mystifying or scientifically dubious. For many, “they/them” represents the 14,000 confused children who have been mutilated by “gender-affirming care.” For others, “they/them” represents thousands of girls and women who are forced to compete with boys and men on the field.

For most, though, “they/them” is probably just a microcosm of all the weird cultural fads the Left has been trying to normalize and force-feed society. Normies tend to reject social science quackery.

Americans are generally happy to make accommodations for alternative lifestyles. That doesn’t make this stuff less bizarre or extreme. And the speed at which the Left has demanded everyone treat these unhinged notions as the norm is mind-blowing.

The other day, President-elect Donald Trump announced the incoming administration would “ask Congress to pass a bill establishing that the only genders recognized by the U.S. government are male and female, and they are assigned at birth.” Twenty years ago, maybe even 10, most people wouldn’t have the slightest clue what he was talking about. Today, a CNN talking head will melt down on national TV when Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) points out that men and women are physically different — an incontrovertible fact that everyone on Earth agreed on until about five minutes ago.

When Trump tapped Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) to be his running mate, Democrats engaged in a concerted effort to portray the Ohio senator as some kind of oddball. Tell me, what’s weirder: making a joke about cat ladies on a podcast or supporting laws that put tampons in the boy’s bathrooms at schools? Because the latter was the work of flannel-shirt-wearing Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), who had once signed a bill empowering courts to strip parents who refused to give “gender-affirming health care” of custody.

Of course, there are probably bigger factors to explain why Democrats lost in 2024. The economy is usually the most pressing issue for voters, and Democrats blew a slam-dunk recovery by cramming through a massive crony spending bill just as inflation was rising. That was just self-destructive behavior. Trying to convince us that dropping trillions into the economy would ease inflation was also weird.

But that doesn’t mean cultural forces aren’t nudging virtually every demographic and ethnic group away from Democrats. One of the reasons is that you people sound nuts.

Your lingo is also disconcertingly weird. “Latinx” is weird. Earnestly using phrases such as “birthing person” or “pregnant people” is so dumb. Marching around in a pussyhat makes you look like an unhinged hysteric. And no one believes you think “The Handmaid’s Tale” is a good or prophetic book.

It’s weird that you think everyone who disagrees with you is Hitler. And it’s weird that you act like a joke about Puerto Rico heralds the coming fascist state. Normies aren’t crazy about language and decorum policing. And you sound like a bunch of nags and prigs.

Perhaps you’ve become this way because your leaders and activists hail from sprawling urban areas where people hold lots of exotic views on sex, life and culture. Or maybe it’s because many of them have been trained in elite institutions where pseudoscience and cultural Marxism are all the rage. In the past, these types of people were the butt of jokes. Today, they’re directing White House policy positions.

Recall that one of Joe Biden’s first decisions as president was compelling educational institutions that rely on federal funding to accept biological male athletes in women’s sports. Does anyone believe this was a pressing concern of our octogenarian president?

Remember when the White House was draped in rainbow flags and when the administration argued it was imperative to stock elementary school libraries with books about oral sex and gender dysphoria? Pushing sexuality on children is nefarious.

And weird. Very weird.

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David Harsanyi

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at National Review and author of "Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent."

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  1. Thank God that Trump never wavered in fighting and standing up for all the beaten down hard working Americans and exposing the Democrats and the “Deep State” for their never ending lies and “lawfare” against him AND us. We revere him because of, and in spite of it. Biden lied to win as a “uniter” and moderate and then doubled down on every far left lunacy; especially promoting transgenderism, and ordering DEI in every government department in the country. They lost because Americans couldn’t imagine four more years of a completely open border that has almost destroyed the United States as a sovereign nation and let in terrorists, cartels, drug and sex traffickers and at least 600,000 known criminals, 12-14 million poor, unvetted and unvaccinated illegals and hundreds of thousands of illegals from countries that hate us. They lost because even though Kamala (like Biden) promised to be a “uniter” and move to the middle we knew she had a twenty year history of being for; no border, abolish ICE, government paid health insurance for illegals and even paying for illegals and even prisoners transgender surgeries, no bail, defund the police, gun confiscation, unlimited abortion and chemically castrating or permanently physically mutilating children in the name of “gender affirmation”. And she had a four year record of being border “Czar” and voting for every piece of government spending legislation including what Biden described as the biggest “Green Spending Bill” in American history. All out of control government spending that has caused cumulative inflation to rise 21% in the last four years, mortgage costs to rise to out of reach levels for most Americans and overall wages to decline. They lost because we are tired of seeing so-called “women” with dicks that are destroying women’s sports and being called “transphobic” and bigoted if we disagree. And they lost because anybody that disagrees with them is also misogynist, a racist, and now a fascist.

    And they lost because we didn’t want four more years of their foreign policy debacles with 190 billion of our taxpayer dollars for a never ending and unwinnable war in Ukraine that just might start WWIII. Or that world war might start in the middle east where they snub our strongest ally Israel and sent tens of billions to Iran who is the biggest state sponsor of Hamas and the Houthis and Hezbollah and terrorists around the world. And we didn’t forget that she was the “last person in the room” in their disastrous and embarrassing withdrawal from Afghanistan that blew to pieces 13 Americans and abandoned tens of billions of our finest military weapons and equipment to the Taliban.

    That’s why she and they lost and it proves that the majority of Americans still have common sense and reject the propaganda and hate from the Democrats and their proxies in all the mainstream media. They are the party of the coastal self righteous “elites”, out of touch and narcissistic Hollywood millionaires, the marxist and/or TDS infected Democrats, and the inculcated “Karens” whose only political idea is their belief in their “inalienable right” to unlimited abortions.

    Trump has said that he wants America’s “success” to be his legacy and, of that, I have no doubt as he will put together a far better team than he had in 2016 and root out all the traitors in the 3 letter agencies. With a strong bench, success will breed success and we might look forward to many years of Republican domination and the current evil marxist Democrat party demolished and dismembered.

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