Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) had a town hall on CNN last night. Why, again?
Honestly, why is CNN doing a town hall with AOC and Bernie Sanders? When I was at Fox News, we only had town halls if we were gearing up for an election. We would put on candidates to talk about their positions. What are these two talking about? Fighting the oligarchy? Did we go over their private jet usage? You won’t be surprised to learn that didn’t come up.
AOC on ‘Radicalized’ Men
Instead, here is just a sample of what was discussed. Look at who they are now blaming for the Democrats’ woes.
QUESTION: Why does Republican messaging on social media seem so much more effective than Democratic messaging, and what can we do about it?
SANDERS: Well, that’s a great question. I think the Republicans are effective. They have learned a lot about social media. And by the way, it doesn’t hurt that their friends own all of the major social media platforms…
OCASIO-CORTEZ: …They have also been very clear, especially digitally, about what they believe. That women are inferior… and they do not deserve equal rights. That they believe that LGBTQ Americans are subhuman… And they are able to radicalize, and target, and exploit a generation of young boys, in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
Let’s be perfectly clear: There was, indeed, one party that radicalized today’s young men and it was yours, madam. It was yours who blamed them for literally everything just because they were born male. Your side demonized them at every turn and laughed when they ever dared to express any actual pain at the circumstances that they were forced into through no fault of their own.
It is absolutely disgusting for her to now say it is the Republican Party, which came to their rescue, that “radicalized them.” I guarantee you right now that woman knows zero Republican men. And for her to come out there and try to turn what she and her brethren did to them for years around – never mind to then blame it on the party that actually stood up for them – is the height of gall.
I realize politicians lie and constantly blame the other side for their own sins. That is not a new thing. But on this issue in particular, it is just so infuriating.
The State of Masculinity
We all know young men – I am talking about, like, 16 to 20 year olds – who feel dejected and completely disaffected by the constant messages of the last five years. In particular, that they are to blame for everything, that they are not hireable, that they are not worthy of college admissions, that their pain doesn’t matter.
Those young men are never going to look at AOC and say, ‘Oh, okay, she gets me now,’ not least of which because she is leaning in. She has been making a thing out of this. She thinks she is onto something.
Just last week she was “body shaming” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and criticizing his “insecure masculinity” and the “insecure masculinity” of the right as a whole. You are “insecure,” apparently, if you are an actual man who doesn’t cower, who doesn’t feel the need to wear a man bun, who actually has testosterone, who understands that some urge toward aggression, who knows competition is natural and it is born with you.
She is continuing to turn those men off by the millions. Even young men typically vote Democrat for various reasons, but not in the 2024 election and not in the next election, if this is what the Democrats took away.
On Radical Gender Ideology
And just a word on her claim that Republicans want to treat trans people as “subhuman.” It is her side that wants to take non-trans children – perfectly healthy children who may be going through normal emotional distress – and literally give them double mastectomies so that she can feel better about who she is. That is what her and her party are doing.
The Republicans are standing up for minors, who deserve to have adequate and healthy sexual function when they get older, who deserve to breastfeed their children, who deserve to have children and not be sterilized at age 14 by puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones (a problem with which they will deal for the rest of their lives long after you have sailed into the sunset).
So, AOC can take a seat on lecturing the right half of the country on the dehumanization of so-called trans people. F that woman. If she runs for president, I might run. I will find my way onto the ticket somehow because there is no way this person can run for president or be president. No, no, no, no, no.
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