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The left’s efforts to portray JD Vance as someone who, like the Bad Orange Man himself, is a far-right, neo-fascist gargoyle whom all decent people should shun is in full swing. The intrepid reporters over at Politico, ever savvy, ever unfoolable, have discovered that Vance has “a bunch of weird views on gender,” views that in ordinary times would get you consigned to the looney bin if we had looney bins anymore and that nowadays get you the Republican party’s vice-presidential nomination. Voters: caveat emptor!
The mind reels with lurid possibilities. What are Vance’s “weird views on gender”? Does he think that men can magically turn into champion female swimmers and women of the year? Does he think drag queens should be sentinto primary schools to teach children the glories of the latest LGBTQWTF fantasies? Does he think parents should lose custody of their children if they don’t affirm their delusions that they belong to the opposite sex?
Nah. Politico would think all that was as normal as pink hair and nose rings. What Politico finds “weird” is that Vance is “staunchly opposed to abortion” and has even compared the left’s sacramental child sacrifice to slavery, another moral evil that once enjoyed the protection of a Supreme Court ruling. Even worse, as far as Politico is concerned, is the fact that Vance has “promoted Viktor Orban’s pro-natalist policies in Hungary, which offer paybacks to married couples that scale up along with the number of children.” Good heavens! He wants people to have more children? But what about their carbon footprint?
Vance also “opposes same-sex marriage.” He had the audacity in 2022 to suggest that “the sexual revolution had made divorce too easy (people nowadays ‘shift spouses like they change their underwear’), arguing that people in unhappy marriages, and maybe even those in violent ones, should stay together for their children.” This is a canard Vance has heard before, and Politico was minimally gracious enough to include his response: “His campaign said such an insinuation was ‘preposterous,’ but you can watch the videoyourself and be the judge.”
All this and more situates Vance within “the faction of the American New Right that typically refers to itself as ‘postliberalism.’” Did you know that we had a New Right, or more precisely, yet another New Right? The idea that there are conventional, respectable conservatives who are challenged by an extreme, radical “New Right” is a decades-old leftist scaremongering trope. Back in 1980 or 1981, I remember my university newspaper running a hysterical piece about the scary evangelical Christians on campus, who were, it said, “inextricably bound to the New Right.” This morning, I looked up the author of that article and discovered that he is a New York Times columnist who lives in the Hamptons with his husband. Figures.
The “New Right” of 1981 is fairly long in the tooth by now, but it’s actually the same as Vance’s New Right. It consisted then and consists now of people who, unlike the John McCain and Mitt Romney types, don’t want to play by the left’s rules. They don’t want to let leftists set the agenda for everything but instead want to offer a real alternative to the American people.
The idea of a genuine alternative to their own rancid agenda is what scares the left, which is authoritarian to the core and, as the Biden regime has shown again and again, is extremely intolerant of dissent.
JD Vance is scary to leftists because his views on gender are indeed “weird” from their point of view. The entire human race has held these same views for millennia, but the left is in full, unhinged rebellion against them. Politico warns that “while Trump’s sexism has manifested as a crude machismo, Vance, along with his New Right fellow-travelers, is about to introduce voters to a more conceptual take on sexism — one which many women, and indeed many men, might find even more alarming.”
That’s absolutely true if you find alarming the idea that men are men and women are women and that each has particularities that the other does not have. The left, in the midst of its all-out war against reality, has found in JD Vance a man who lives squarely and unapologetically within that reality. That’s why leftists hate and fear him so much.
Jeff Bargholz says
J.D. Vance? A married guy with three kids? Yeah. His views on “gender” are weird. Not that there is any such thing as “gender” There are two sexes and that’s it. And Vance is as normal as it gets.
Connie Alsobrook says
Agree! Since when is normal weird?
10ffgrid says
There actually ARE 3 “genders” ………… Male ………………….. Female ……………………………………… and democrat.
World@70 says
It’s no surprise! The left was going to say something derogatory about Trump’s VP, regardless of who he picked. The left is running a campaign of tar and feather your opponent rather than express any issues and beneficial policies. But that seems to be the only thing they have.
The important thing to remember is Kamala will cripple America by multiples of Joe Biden.
Snuffy Carter says
James Carville: “Harris is going to get slaughtered on Nov. 5.”
Even some of the democrats are waking up.
10ffgrid says
Carville is correct, but that’s in an honest election – without democrat election fraud.
Connie Alsobrook says
Absolutely 💯. This whole Kamala deal smells of corruption. Please wake up people.
cedar9 says
Coming from the debauched depraved leftist rag that promotes the mutilation of 12 year old girls and boys, the ripping apart of living human babies in the womb and doesn’t know what a woman is etc etc etc is the very meaning of projected filth and depravity.
Beto says
I have a ow regard for Vance as he’s a ruzzkies lover who wants to throw democratic Ukraine under the bus. Moreover his wanting to pay people to breed would have dire consequences in the USA. Do we want to encourage blacks and Mexicans to breed even more? Besides, Orbans plan has not been a winner nor similar once in Italy and fascist ruzzia.
Jeff Bargholz says
Beto O’Dork? Is that you?
RS says
The Left shifts focus on destroying JD Vance, a Family man, Patriot, Marine, Senator, Business man, and Grassroots candidate. They are in an absolute tizzy about anyone who is normal, embraces Godly values, law, the constitution, or displays honor and allegiance to God and Country, putting the nation ahead of political tyranny.
Greg says
Rachel Levine, the transvestite Democ-rat cabinet secretary, is normal in a world that views J.D. Vance (or anybody else!) as “weird.” Hmm. “Heels Up” Harris and the Democ-rat clown show rolls on.
Laura says
I am a childless cat lady and I take no offense to that.
10ffgrid says
Now THAT’S HILARIOUS !!! You made my day!
Waldo says
WEIRD is an acronym for members of White European Industrialized Rich Democratic cultures. It is a “code” that the media is unaware of.
Here is where it was first introduced:
https://news.harvard.edu › gazette › story › 2020 › 09 › joseph-henrich-explores-weird-societies Joseph Henrich explores WEIRD societies — Harvard Gazette
A book by Joseph Henrich explores how Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies differ psychologically from most other cultures. He traces the origins of WEIRDness to medieval European history and its impact on institutions, norms, and thinking.
Darryl says
Breeders, with a wife and children are weird to cat ladies and anorgasmic, infertile transexuals.
He is weird when whites dudes simping for Kamala, stifling themselves in front of their sexual and racial superiors are speaking are the norm.
When childless, anorgasmic, infertile, childless, pleasure less sexuality is the norm, that is when just regular guys are considered weird.
To the culture of death, anyone sacrificing to a future life by giving it all for children, is weird.
The future does not belong to a childless, partner less normal, which is exactly what the young woman demographic has become.
All the single 40 year old ladies are dancing in happiness to show just how normal they are and how pathetic they are not.
Do they even believe that themselves?
But this is the new normal for girls, a part of the public collective, but otherwise, personally, alone, futureless, childless, without a lover, without a discernible gender for the most part.
That is the new normal.
In a world of that kind or normal, I highly recommend girls getting weirded all over. Being the same is highly overrated.
Our house, white picket fence, two cats and a dog, remember when liberals used to sing about a notprmal like that?
Waldo says
Take a look at the Wikipedia entry for a book titled the WEIRDEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD and how white Christians of European descent are blamed for all the problems in the world. Written by a Harvard University professor and published in 2020, it even takes aim at the nuclear family as having fostered individualism and undermined community cohesiveness (i.e., communalism). That is why Trump and Vance are WEIRD – because they are ‘breeders’, representing a patriarchal system where a man is the head of the family. Someone suggested that J.D. Vance should appear more often with his wife and children
to show that he is not weird but a regular guy. But in the “newspeak” (as in Orwell’s 1984)
a heterosexual white Christian male with a wife and kids is the WEIRD one.
WEIRD now designates someone as advocating the cultural values of
White Educated Industrialized Rich Democracies. (Why did I think the E was for European?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_World
And here is a link to another book on WEIRD and non-WEIRD cultures:
Waldo says
There are several books that extol the virtues of non-WEIRD people.
This one is titled “Beyond WEIRD Psychobiography”: