Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson on his podcast Thursday broke down what he said was Democrats’ “idea” of how “real masculine men” are expected to behave, and that includes what he said was their destruction of traditional masculinity.
Prior to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in November, The New York Times released an article profiling the faces of Democrats’ “new masculinity.” The first was Doug Emhoff , who is husband to Vice President Kamala Harris. The second was Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who, last year, was Harris’ running mate.
On “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” the senior fellow discussed how Democrats have rejected “traditional key men,” saying Emhoff and Walz have become key role models for women on the left.
“As I understand the subtext is on the left, that they are rejecting traditional key man masculinity on the right. So they don’t like the Dana White, the Joe Rogan, the Mixed Martial Arts, all of that group,” Hanson said. “But apparently they have an idea of a more sensitive, caring masculinity that when you look at these real men, they look endomorphic. Endomorphic is not a slur, Jack. It just means a body type where they’re invertebrate.”
“My point is Emhoff and Waltz, then they must have pushed these buttons, and I guess the buttons are partly they are helpers to powerful women like Kamala Harris or his, remember Waltz’s wife, kind of nutty? I think they took her off the trail,” Hanson said. “She’d get out and scream and yell. You got the impression that his leftward tilt, he ran as a congressional person, as a rural Clinton Democrat. And then he, this spouse kind of pushed him.”
In September, Emhoff sat down with former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki for an interview, where she was seen asking the second gentleman about reshaping the “perception of masculinity.” Emhoff told the MSNBC host that he had always aimed to “do the right thing” and “support women” when asked about his role in the cultural movement.
Hanson went on to say that Democrats define masculine men as those who “cede authority” to women, before ripping into both Emhoff and Walz’s problematic pasts.
“I guess one of the subtext is that real masculine men cede authority or decision making to the female spouses because they’re confident in their masculinity, and they don’t have to have props like guns and cars. That’s part of it. The other thing must be that you have to, real masculine men are entitled to certain sins because they’re not in your face,” Hanson said.
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“So if you want to impregnate your nanny and arrange for her to have a child and then buy her a house and then cover it up for years, that’s what a sensitive man does. Or if you want to lie about your military record serially, that’s OK too because you’re a sensitive male. So one of the elements of sensitive masculinity is that while you may sin and those are traits of the toxic masculinity and you’re trying to overcome them,” Hanson added. “I guess what I’m saying is that they don’t sin.”
During their time on the campaign trail, both Emhoff and Walz came under fire over allegations involving their pasts.
While married to his first wife, Kerstin, Emhoff allegedly had an affair around 2009 with his then-young daughter’s nanny, Najen Naylor, which was reported in August by the Daily Mail. As a result of the affair, Naylor, who had taught at the Los Angeles private school his daughter attended, allegedly became pregnant; however, she did “not have the baby,” according to CBS News.
Emhoff later confirmed the affair in a statement to CNN, but did not name the woman or address the alleged pregnancy.
Walz — during his debate against Vice President-elect JD Vance — made a handful of blunders, including claiming he was “friends with school shooters” and melting down when asked whether he had been in Hong Kong during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. The Democratic governor also faced significant backlash during his campaign over allegations of “stolen valor.”
In 2005, while serving, Walz allegedly left his battalion after learning of its deployment to Iraq. Despite denying the claims in August, two veterans who served with him criticized him in a 2018 letter, accusing him of “betraying his country” by retiring before his unit’s deployment, according to The New York Post.
“All of their sins are washed away. It’s kind of a substitute, a surrogate Christianity. And in that wokeness or sensitivity or feminism or whatever the ism is, it tells you that if you accept the tenets of belief in sensitive masculinity and you wore your entire life with toxic masculinity, then, as part of that penance, you’re allowed these sins that are washed away,” Hanson said. “You seek cover. You seek penance from it, and you see that all over. Bill Clinton was a master of that.”
“I’m sorry audience, I didn’t say the critical characteristic of a sensitive man and a new masculinity is you have to support feminist issues. Two of them, you have to be strong on trans chauvinism and you have to be abortion to the moment of delivery. And if you push those two buttons, you’re really, really sensitive,” Hanson said.
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