I’m going to attempt to take a fresh look at this year’s election season, and not resort to tired cliches. And yes, I have enough self-awareness to realize that the term “take a fresh look” is a very tired cliche. Of course, this was an American election, so… yeah.
This election yielded one or two surprises, and unsurprisingly, The Globalist Left found yet another line to cross. Here are my main take-aways:
1. Swifties For Trump Were Really A Thing
This is by far the most refreshing variable from this election cycle. It demonstrated that many of our young girls and women (I’m sixty-one, so that’s a large demographic) can hold paradoxical views. One can attend a Taylor Swift event (my understanding is that they’re not really “concerts”), go along with, or eye-roll her “down with the Patriarchy” nonsense, and still cast a vote for Trump. Respect.
Many of our women demonstrated the ability to think for themselves rather than go along with the hivemind. This gives me hope.
2. Men And Boys Are Not Suicidal.
Are we simply passing the common sense test here? Ronald Reagan wisely used the metaphor of bold and bright colors opposed to pastels to emphasize the differences between the belief systems of Right and Left. Relentlessly screaming at men would be a bad idea in any context. In an election? You get the idea. Telling men how much you hate them, and promising to hate them just a little less if they vote your way, was a losing strategy. This isn’t clever, this isn’t well thought out. It’s (attempted) hostage-taking. And it’s laughably ineffective.
And it doesn’t matter if you are a 300-lbs blue haired land whale, or a marginally cute college girl who has never been told “no.” You can rage on Tic-Tok and threaten to withhold sex all you want. The response is and remains, “we accept your terms.”
3. For The Left, Marriage Is Fair Game
By far, the most toxic political add I have ever seen was put out by the Harris Campaign during this election season. I will not link to it.
Two couples enter the poling location to cast their votes. The couples are in early middle age, the wives are tall, good-looking. The subtle message is that the women are just a little out of their husband’s league.
One of the men, portrayed as not quite at the Homer Simpson level of cluelessness, urges the wife to “vote the right way.”
The voice-over isn’t nearly as nuanced as the producers would have you believe. To paraphrase: ‘your vote is sovereign (duh) and this election is important; you don’t have to vote like your (loser) husband.’
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The women both symbolically and physically step away from their husbands. They approach their separate stand-up voting booths, and settle in behind their privacy shields. There is a moment of apprehension. They make eye contact and nod at each other. With virtuous determination, they fill out their ballots.
The women cast their ballots and rejoin their husbands. The first husband, once again somewhere between not-quite Homer Simpson and not-quite Deliverance asked his wife if she voted “the right way.”
All smiles, she replies, “I sure did.” As the couple exit the poling location, the two women tap their ‘I voted stickers,’ and exchange knowing glances like a couple of masonic lodge brothers who’ve just hatched a plot to take down James Bond once and for all. Curtain.
Did It Work?
No, and the stats bear that out.
Here are dry, boring numbers. Power through it. In 2020, 56% of married men and 52% of married women voted for Donald Trump. In 2024 60% of married men voted for Trump, while 51% of married women voted accordingly. Trump increased his margin among married men by 8 points while losing a point among married women. This tells us that Democrats failed to peel wives away from their Trump-voting husbands, while also failing to hold onto a significant handful of blue-voting husbands. To be fair, this plurality of new Trump-voting husbands failed to bring along their wives. So make of that what you will.
A Viceral Hatred For The Family In And Out Of Election Season
Back in the 90’s I remember a caller to Bob Grant’s radio show asserting that Socialism is the separation of the parent from the child so that both can stand helpless before the power of The State. Even the casual observer will conclude that The Family at large seems to represent something hatful to the Leftist-Globalist mind. Including those of the Left who have established families for themselves. What such a paradox indicates, beyond the obvious mental illness infecting those on The Left, isn’t something with which I care to grapple.
Socialism is the separation of the parent from the child so that both can stand helpless before the power of The State.
Unknown
Back in the nineties, there was a reported phenomena of households splitting their vote between Clinton and Bush 41. I’m certain that this has been going on since the 1920s, and during the Clinton-Bush campaign, it was treated as an amusing human-interest story. Almost cute. Any efforts to drive a wedge between husbands and wives were nuanced, and not taken seriously. Twenty-plus years later, the mask has clearly come off. Stay vigilant.
Selah.
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