The Democratic Party is facing a similar marketing fiasco. For years during the Biden-Harris administration (and even before then), Democrats pandered to left-wing activists and embraced radical ideas, such as sex changes for minors and “anti-racism.” At the same time, they told normal, working men, many of whom would have probably voted Democrat, that they were toxic, privileged, racist, underserving of attention or doomed to be irrelevant in the woke America of the 21st century.
Now, less than a month from Election Day, Democrats are scrambling to court the very same voters they have chastised for years.
The Harris-Walz campaign launched a media blitz over the weekend to target black and rural men and sent the Minnesota governor on a pheasant hunting trip in his home state. Of course, the hunting PR stunt was an embarrassing misfire. Walz was caught on camera whining about shoulder pain from recoil while failing to load and clear his shotgun. The gaffe only underscored the hunt’s artificiality — that it was just optics, that Walz, in reality, has no clue what he is doing when it comes to firearms, that he has no natural appeal for men. (RELATED: After Seeing Walz Fumble With A Shotgun, It Was Probably For The Best He Refused To Deploy To Iraq)
Walz even admitted at an event that his party was struggling to win over younger male voters. But, in typical fashion, he took on the tone of a holier-than-thou liberal, saying, “It’s not cool” to support Trump. It’s bad! You’re bad! Stop that! Sorry, if you’re a young man, and the clownish public school teacher is wagging his finger in your face about what is cool and what isn’t, he’s literally the last person on the planet you would ever support. Every man reading this with a pulse knows the feeling: You don’t want to be told what to do, or what to believe, especially by someone like Tim Walz.
Tim Walz is coping HARD over the fact that Trump is winning young men:
“I refuse to admit that that’s real.”
“This is not WWE type stuff. It’s not cool when he talks like that.”
(Yes it is, actually.) pic.twitter.com/TZLpSeTwKM
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) October 14, 2024
Meanwhile, Democrats have flooded social media with cringe ads in a desperate attempt to lure men into their camp. In perhaps the worst ad yet, paid actors pretending to be real, salt-of-the-earth men, argue they are still manly despite supporting the Harris-Walz ticket. They “aren’t afraid of women,” they say, sounding like hostages. But even a former Biden White House official ripped the ad as “condescending.”
“Yeah, the message is condescending,” Meghan Hays told CNN. “And I know it’s my party, but it just comes across as condescending, and that ad seemed like a joke to me. It’s not the way, like if a man talked to me like that, women would be up in arms … The message is just so condescending, and I think that the authenticity point is a really good one, that if Democrats really want to go after men, they need to figure out a better way to talk to them, and they need to figure out a better way that’s more genuine to who they are in their message.”
If you thought that ad of the men for Kamala was cringe, wait until you see the same group’s Tim Walz video pic.twitter.com/RtEfCDCAB2
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) October 11, 2024
Kamala Harris is taking a more direct approach. The vice president is pretty much bribing black men by promising them forgivable small business loans based on their race. Not only is it a cynical ploy, but it is also likely illegal. Also, what will white rural men think of this proposal? They get Instagram reels of Tim Walz stalking a Minnesota field for pheasant, but the black man in the city gets a $20,000 loan. Okay, message received.
All of this will backfire, of course. Democrats should’ve taken a lesson from Bud Light, but they didn’t. You cannot Bud Light your brand for well over a decade and expect to salvage it in just one election cycle. Normal American men are not that stupid. Come Election Day, they will see this for what it is: a fake, cynical, eleventh-hour bid to convince them that what they have seen over the past several years never actually happened.
