00:01:53.580Before it became a content farm full of AI-generated clickbaits,
00:01:57.360Sports Illustrated was, at one point, a serious publication where major political figures discussed issues of national importance, if you can believe it.
00:02:04.780And that was the case in December of 1960, when Sports Illustrated featured an article from John F. Kennedy,
00:02:10.000who was the president-elect at the time.
00:02:12.580The article was entitled The Soft American,
00:02:14.580and it addressed the crisis in masculinity that America was experiencing in the post-war period as men took office jobs and adjusted to suburban life.
00:02:24.000In the article, Kennedy called on men to maintain their physical and mental fitness because the strength of the country depended on it, he said.
00:02:32.220The knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for the vigor and vitality of all the activities of the nation is as old as Western civilization itself.
00:02:42.380It was a sentiment you are unlikely to hear from politicians these days, expressed with an eloquence and maturity of thought and speech that you're even less likely to hear these days.
00:02:51.620But it was a theme that Kennedy hit often.
00:02:54.480It was one of the reasons he was elected.
00:02:56.160For Democrats in the 1960s, masculinity was a virtue worthy of reinforcing and protecting as much as possible.
00:03:04.180Going soft, as Kennedy put it, was tempting.
00:03:07.560It was the natural way forward for a lot of people in the modern age, as you indulge in all the modern luxuries and all that sort of thing.
00:03:15.380But it would ultimately doom the country.
00:03:17.700And this was not an especially controversial point back then or at any other point in world history.
00:03:23.200But in the 1960s, Democrats were the political party that successfully communicated that message to Americans.
00:03:31.620Six decades later, amid another genuine masculinity crisis, as evidenced by plummeting sperm counts, a rash of men who say they're really women, declining rates of marriage, rapidly inclining rates of fatherlessness and so on,
00:03:47.700Democrats are now taking a very different approach.
00:03:50.960They've realized that emasculated men are easier to control.
00:03:56.360Weaker men are much less likely to resist wealth confiscation, gun confiscation, and many other indignities.
00:04:04.700And because the modern Democrat Party cares about control and really nothing else, they're not really taking JFK's approach.
00:04:11.840Instead, they're doing everything they can to make the masculinity crisis even worse.
00:04:16.840Specifically, Democrats are now pushing what they say is a new plan to revamp and update the entire concept of masculinity for the modern age.
00:04:26.740This is being achieved through, primarily, their two new mascots of modern masculinity.
00:04:33.080Their geldings that they've been trotting around as a positive example for all men to follow.
00:04:39.480And those are, of course, Tim Walls and Kamala Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff.
00:04:43.480Now, this new ideal man, personified by Emhoff and Walls, is a bumbling, ridiculous cornball.
00:04:53.680He's an obedient lackey who does not challenge anyone or anything, least of all the women in his life who he happily subordinates himself to.
00:05:03.680You know, it's certainly no coincidence that the left's paragons of masculinity are men who play second fiddle to more powerful women.
00:05:11.860This might sound like one of those forbidden conspiracy theories that's definitely not happening.
00:05:17.900But pretty much the entire corporate media has admitted that it is happening.
00:05:21.860Here, for example, is CNN explaining that Democrats are intentionally trying to appeal to men who are not, quote, testosterone laden.
00:05:31.020But they are doing so in trying to put forward male figures, Tim Walls being one of them, Doug Emhoff last night,
00:05:43.180who can speak to men out there who might not be the sort of testosterone laden, you know, gun toting kind of guy who wants to listen to Hulk Hogan
00:05:58.020and the kind of players that came out at the RNC or might want to listen to that.
00:06:04.440But also, in addition, understand that it's OK in 2024 to be a man comfortable in his own skin who supports a woman.
00:06:14.100And that's something that they really are trying to work on with male voters beyond the base.
00:06:21.480Imagine the men that are watching CNN and, like, resonating with that.
00:06:26.880It's good that someone's finally talking to us, us pathetic wusses of the world.
00:06:33.880Now, when CNN comes out and states that the Democrats' vice presidential nominee and the vice president's husband both have low testosterone,
00:06:41.860you know this is a message that the party pre-approved.
00:06:44.840At any other point in American history, this would have been seen as insulting and condescending, and rightfully so.
00:06:52.520I mean, to come out and say that this is the party for men who are not testosterone laden, like at any other point in history, that's the best way to kill the party.
00:07:02.680Like, no man is going to want to be a part of that if that's how you sell it.
00:07:06.600But Democrats no longer believe that it's remotely insulting or condescending to publicly state, as explicitly as possible,
00:07:13.940that someone is an effeminate, low-testosterone wimp.
00:07:18.320And that's because they want to encourage that behavior as much as possible.
00:07:21.520And that's why CNN isn't the only media outlet doing this.
00:07:24.500The New York Times, for example, recently reported from the DNC that Tim Walz's primetime debut, quote,
00:07:31.000offered football analogies and an alternative to Trumpian masculinity.