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Obama Admits Critical ‘Mistake’ Made By Enlightened Lefties

Former President Barack Obama sat down with his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, to gab about really boring stuff on her podcast. Such as, ahem, “Male Friendships and Emotional Sharing,” as reads one of the chapter titles for the YouTube episode.

But when the conversation turned to raising boys, Barack meandered into a critique of his side of the aisle.

“I will say, as quote-unquote, progressives, Democrats, progressive parents, enlightened ones, we’ve made that mistake sometimes in terms of our rhetoric. Where it’s like we’re constantly talking about … what’s wrong with the boys, instead of what’s right with them.”

Barack referenced his concerns as a father.

“For those of us with daughters, we’ve got to have good guys out there,” he began. “Not necessarily to get married, but … when we don’t think about boys, and just assume they’re going to be okay because they’ve been running the world, you know, they’ve got all the advantages relative to the girls, and all of which has historically been true in all kinds of ways. But precisely because of that, if you’re not thinking about what’s happening to boys, and how are they being raised, then that can actually hurt women.”

Ah. So the ultimate end of helping boys is helping girls. Barack’s comments are cut from the same rhetorical cloth as certain detractors of affirmative action: “Doling out college admissions advantages on the basis of race is bad. Other kids will assume non-white and non-Asian students are less capable.”

But consider this. If there are no good men left, who will pay for the Obama girls’ dinners?

“We joke that, talking to Malia [Obama] and Sasha [Obama], sometimes they go out with their friends, and you know, they’re in a group and the guy’s got crocodile arms,” Obama said, gesturing with his arm. “Not picking up the check … You don’t have to pick it up all the time, but if you’re never picking it up, that’s a problem. If you’re never opening a door, or pulling out a chair, because that’s just common courtesy.”

Such subtle chivalry was common courtesy at some point in recent memory. Say, when Barack himself was born. But progress demands progress. “Safe, legal, and rare” rapidly became “empowering, on-demand, and always to be applauded.”

Opening the door for a woman may seem a simple expectation. But it builds on the premise that men and women are different. That they should behave differently. That men have a particular obligation to women, which, crucially, is reciprocated via a host of obligations exclusive to women. Manners of this sort are a social technology which negotiates sex differences.

Barack himself doesn’t appear to place much stock in those differences. He crowed about the U.S. Supreme Court decision to affirm the constitutionality of same-sex marriages in Obergefell v. Hodges as a “victory for America.” It “made our union a little more perfect.”

Revolutions always were prone to exacting measured revenge on their own vanguards. Though Malia and Sasha will probably figure out a way to pay for their own brunches, one imagines.

AUTHOR

Natalie Sandoval

Patriots Writer. Follow Natalie Sandoval on X: @NatSandovalDC

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SANDOVAL: Left Wing Media Seethes At Young, Fertile, Republican Women

Left-wing media has identified a dangerous new political archetype: the thin, fertile, Republican woman.

Beware the burgeoning online “womanosphere” urging an audience of young women away from feminism and towards marriage, children, and being attractive, warns The Guardian. The outlet points to prominent conservative commentators such as Brett Cooper and Candace Owens, along with publications like Evie Magazine, as emblematic of this clunkily-named counterpart to the “manosphere.”

These women are united by their “desire to return to a gender-essentialist worldview,” according to The Guardian, which casts “women as submissive homemakers” and “men as strong providers.”

Oh, the horror. “Gender-essentialism” refers to the outlandish belief that men and women are different. One is free to draw varied conclusions from this fact. The left has taken up a strange quarrel with the concept of biological sex itself, an argument which defeats itself at the outset. How can one analyze why female commentators specifically appeal to females without acknowledging the validity of the category?

The outlet warns of “an organized effort” to create an “alternative rightwing media ecosystem targeting young female US audiences.” One discerns the outlet’s terror at the prospect — no great wonder, given the much vaunted “podcast strategy” helped win over young male voters to Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

“Organized” is supposed to be a dirty word. It connotes an insidious masterplan to take women off birth control and put them on quick-slimming diets. But the legacy media, with its extreme left-wing bias, is surely no less organized and strident in its political and cultural prescriptions than the “right-wing media.” Notice the asymmetry in terms. The New York Times and Netflix are simply media. They claim neutral ground. It’s a powerful rhetorical trick. If they can successfully assert themselves as unbiased observers and artists, they fashion reality itself in their terms.

This strategy shifts the window of acceptable belief to the left. Sure, they say, we welcome a diversity of opinion — anywhere between Hillary Clinton and a Tesla vandal.  Any objections to left-wing madness are easily characterized and dismissed as “extreme.” Including objections which members of the Democratic Party levied just twenty years ago.

“I believe that marriage is not just a bond, but a sacred bond between man and woman,” said a younger Clinton. “It exists between a man and a woman going back into the mists of history as one of the founding, foundational institutions of history and humanity and civilization.”

Sounds an awful lot like a “womanosphere” talking point.

“Young women are particularly vulnerable to these appeals,” according to The Guardian. This is the proposition of feminism: women deserve all the same rights as men but are agentless creatures capable of none of the same responsibilities. It seems a tension born not out of logic, but political maneuvering. Feminism cloaks itself in the language of equality to disguise a cheap aim: endless goodies. This, at the cost of the well-being of men and women alike.

The Guardian blames conservative commentators for “capitalizing on a real crisis of loneliness” among young people.

“Conservatives aren’t focusing on the real issues,” whines the leftist, “Like making sure third graders have a robust understanding of prostitution and bondage.” Appeals to unity from the left are always bungled by their own inability to cleave from Woke.

“Don’t let them trick us into thinking we can be separated into rural and urban,” said Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) at a recent rally. “Black and white and Latino.” Note the capitalization from her producers. Even in a sentence calling for unity, she can’t help but isolate “white.”

More to the point: why shouldn’t one relate young people’s loneliness to a culture plunging leftwards? At the very least, one must admit a correlation between rising alienation and rising egalitarianism. It seems no outlandish conjecture that men and women might be happier and more at ease with one another were they to assume some “antiquated,” sex-specific standards. And basic hygiene and fitness.

“Young women have been hailed as the saving grace of the Democratic party, the force that will deliver us from all those angry young men spending all their time listening to podcasts, but that’s not a given,” writes The Guardian.

Therein lies a sick admission. The Democratic Party prefers women fat, infertile, single, and unhappy. Why? Because those women make the most fervent ideologues. Leftism inverts natural hierarchies. It lofts the ugly and sick above the beautiful. It punishes any natural inclination towards the latter. This appeals to malcontents who depend on such an infrastructure to confer them status and meaning. Or a green card, as the case may be.

Who profits by a woman being thin and fertile? Why, only the woman herself, the young man interested in dating and marrying her, her future family, and all the rest of society by extension. The left’s supposed concern for female “freedom” and “independence” is false. They’d just prefer women be dependent on the state, not a husband.

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Natalie Sandoval

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ROOKE: Trump Campaign Cracks Code For Freeing Our Nation From Its Dysfunctional Overlords

The Trump campaign targeted male voters in a way no other candidate had done before. Not only did it work to get him elected, but it also woke a sleeping giant of men ready to take on the government that had long forgotten them.

President-elect Donald Trump’s son, Barron Trump, is one of those credited with his strategy to target male voters through a string of podcast appearances with hosts Theo Von, the Nelk Boys, Adin Ross, Barstool Sports’ “Bussin with the Boys,” Andrew Schulz, Shawn Ryan, Patrick Bet-David and Joe Rogan. Trump passed on interviews with “60 Minutes” and other major news outlets in favor of these influencers with male-dominated viewership.

Charlie Kirk recently discussed this portion of the campaign strategy on Patrick Bet-David’s podcast. He said his get-out-the-vote efforts targeted young college men by going to fraternities and college campuses to register them to vote. At the same time, Trump attended popular podcasts that already reached male audiences. “The Trump campaign was brilliant because they threw the Republican consultant playbook out. … Trump came in and said, ‘no, no, no. We are going to focus on low propensity voters — the welder, the electrician, the carpenter, the police offer, or the person that’s just not registered to vote,’” Kirk said. “Here’s the kicker. Where do these people get their information? Lower propensity voters get their information on TikTok. They are not watching CNN. These folks are darn tired by the time they get home. They are not turning on cable news. They are watching NFL football games.”

Kirk said the strategy was to hit these podcasts one by one to combat corporate media’s biased information on Trump and utilize a grassroots voter registration campaign to turn the listeners into voters. Trump met men where they were, resulting in a complete vibe shift in the 2024 election and ultimately securing the president-elect a mandate.

There was a 14-point shift in young men who voted for Trump in 2024 compared to his 2020 campaign. He also won the majority of the male vote from all ages.

It wasn’t that Trump went on these shows to pander to male audiences. He talked about a wide array of topics that directly affect them, like using tariffs to bolster American manufacturing jobs, foreign policy decisions that would ensure they aren’t sent off to die in foreign wars and ending the DEI agenda that promoted diversity quotas over competency and excellence.

Men have been forgotten. To deny this is to ignore the crisis of men leaving the workforce in record numbers. Seven million men in the prime of life are opting out of the labor market, according to a Sept. 2023 report released by Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio titled, “The State of the Working (And Non-Working) Man.”

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They have been demonized and depressed into not caring about a society that seemingly hates them. When men don’t take an active role in the stewardship of our country, it falls into chaos. Until Trump, there hasn’t been a candidate willing to talk about what’s happening to them and offer a solution.

The result of Trump’s outreach was more than just a win in November. It gave them a reason to fight back against our dysfunctional government overlords willing to sell our birthright to the globalist regime.

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Mary Rooke

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