Victor Davis Hanson
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What we're talking about is young girls who are dressing after gym or after sports events with people who have male genitalia. And the left used to be that we have to protect our children, we have to be careful about sexualizing, and they have completely thrown that out. The other larger question is, What Trump is trying to say is we want tolerance.
What we're talking about is young girls who are dressing after gym or after sports events with people who have male genitalia. And the left used to be that we have to protect our children, we have to be careful about sexualizing, and they have completely thrown that out. The other larger question is, What Trump is trying to say is we want tolerance.
What we're talking about is young girls who are dressing after gym or after sports events with people who have male genitalia. And the left used to be that we have to protect our children, we have to be careful about sexualizing, and they have completely thrown that out. The other larger question is, What Trump is trying to say is we want tolerance.
And I say that because he has a gay secretary of treasury. Rick Grinnell was gay. He's had more people who were gay in top echelon positions than almost anybody. But what he's trying to say is in any society... The idea of a man and a woman and a nuclear family and fertility of 2.1, 2.5 children is essential, not about ideology, not about politics, but just statistically to that society.
And I say that because he has a gay secretary of treasury. Rick Grinnell was gay. He's had more people who were gay in top echelon positions than almost anybody. But what he's trying to say is in any society... The idea of a man and a woman and a nuclear family and fertility of 2.1, 2.5 children is essential, not about ideology, not about politics, but just statistically to that society.
And I say that because he has a gay secretary of treasury. Rick Grinnell was gay. He's had more people who were gay in top echelon positions than almost anybody. But what he's trying to say is in any society... The idea of a man and a woman and a nuclear family and fertility of 2.1, 2.5 children is essential, not about ideology, not about politics, but just statistically to that society.
And what I mean by that is all of our sociological studies, if you believe anything from social science, show that a two-parent family, and I'm talking about people who are single, not that it's impossible, but it's a normative situation.
And what I mean by that is all of our sociological studies, if you believe anything from social science, show that a two-parent family, and I'm talking about people who are single, not that it's impossible, but it's a normative situation.
And what I mean by that is all of our sociological studies, if you believe anything from social science, show that a two-parent family, and I'm talking about people who are single, not that it's impossible, but it's a normative situation.
But what the Democratic Party is doing is they are taking things that have minute constituencies, and they are magnifying them to try to leverage the Republicans as illiberal, and it's not working.
But what the Democratic Party is doing is they are taking things that have minute constituencies, and they are magnifying them to try to leverage the Republicans as illiberal, and it's not working.
But what the Democratic Party is doing is they are taking things that have minute constituencies, and they are magnifying them to try to leverage the Republicans as illiberal, and it's not working.
So when you have trans people come in and storm in or you have Bud Light ads and it's not appealing to the mainstream and it's especially bleeding and hemorrhaging the Democratic Party support among black males and Hispanics. And they can't stop it.
So when you have trans people come in and storm in or you have Bud Light ads and it's not appealing to the mainstream and it's especially bleeding and hemorrhaging the Democratic Party support among black males and Hispanics. And they can't stop it.
So when you have trans people come in and storm in or you have Bud Light ads and it's not appealing to the mainstream and it's especially bleeding and hemorrhaging the Democratic Party support among black males and Hispanics. And they can't stop it.
No, it's not the messaging. It's the message. You could have Cicero articulate the message, and people do not want the message. They don't want it. Mark Penn, remember, along with Doug Schoen, was the architect, I think, of the 1996 project. Democratic Convention statement, which I've mentioned before, which reads pretty much like a MAGA statement.
No, it's not the messaging. It's the message. You could have Cicero articulate the message, and people do not want the message. They don't want it. Mark Penn, remember, along with Doug Schoen, was the architect, I think, of the 1996 project. Democratic Convention statement, which I've mentioned before, which reads pretty much like a MAGA statement.
No, it's not the messaging. It's the message. You could have Cicero articulate the message, and people do not want the message. They don't want it. Mark Penn, remember, along with Doug Schoen, was the architect, I think, of the 1996 project. Democratic Convention statement, which I've mentioned before, which reads pretty much like a MAGA statement.
Not that the Democrats ever followed through on all of them. And Clinton took, in the second term, he took the country to the left. But for a while... The idea of a closed border, legal-only immigration, strong support for defense, for the police, physical sobriety, that was a Democratic winning message. And that's why they won in 92 and 96 with a little help from Ross Perot.
Not that the Democrats ever followed through on all of them. And Clinton took, in the second term, he took the country to the left. But for a while... The idea of a closed border, legal-only immigration, strong support for defense, for the police, physical sobriety, that was a Democratic winning message. And that's why they won in 92 and 96 with a little help from Ross Perot.