Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, on Thursday’s podcast shot down Democratic “ideas” of how “true manhood” is expected to behave, including He said it also includes the destruction of traditional masculinity.

Ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in November, The New York Times released An article profiling the face of the Democratic Party’s “new masculinity.” The first was Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris. The second candidate is Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who was Harris’ running mate last year.

On “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” the senior researcher discussed how the Democratic Party has rejected “traditional leading figures,” and said that Emhoff and Waltz serve as important role models for women on the left. said.

“As I understand it, the breakdown is on the left and they’re rejecting the traditional key man masculinity on the right. So they’re Dana White, Joe Rogan, mixed martial arts, I don’t like everyone in that group,” Hanson said. “But apparently they have a more nuanced and caring idea of ​​masculinity, and when you look at these real men, they seem isomorphic. Endomorphic is not a slur, Jack. It simply means the body shape of an invertebrate.”

“What I’m talking about is Emhoff and Waltz. So they must have pushed these buttons. And some of those buttons are because they’re talking about Kamala Harris and powerful people like him. I think it’s about being a supporter of women. Remember Waltz’s wife, she’s a little crazy? I think they took her off track,” Hanson said. “She went outside and screamed and screamed. I got the impression that he was leaning to the left and running for Congress as a rural Clinton Democrat. And he, this spouse, pushed him.”

In September, Emhoff met with former White House press secretary Jen Psaki, where she was seen asking the second gentleman about reshaping “perceptions of masculinity.” When asked about her role in the cultural movement, Emhoff told MSNBC hosts that she has always aimed to “do the right thing” and “support women.”

Hanson also said that Democrats define masculine men as those who “cede power” to women, before delving into Emhoff and Walz’s troubled pasts. (Related: Exclusive: House panel issues subpoena, Biden-Harris officials slam Tim Walz’s ‘obstruction’ investigation into China relations)

“One of the secrets is that real manly men are confident in their masculinity and don’t need gadgets like guns or cars, so they delegate authority and decision-making to their female spouses. I think that’s part of it. The other part is that true manly men have a right to certain sins because they have invisible sins.” Hanson said.

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“So if you want to get your nanny pregnant and have a baby, then buy her a house and hide it for years, that’s what a sensitive man does. Or lie about his war record. Even if you want to continue, you are a sensitive man That’s okay too, because it’s sexual. So one of the elements of sensitive masculinity is that you might sin, but that’s a characteristic of toxic masculinity, and you’re trying to overcome that.” Hanson added. “I think what I’m trying to say is, they’re not guilty.”

Emhoff and Walz came under intense criticism during their campaign over allegations related to their pasts.

Emhoff, who was married to his first wife Kerstin, was accused of having an affair with his then-infant daughter’s nanny, Najen Naylor, around 2009, the Daily Mail reported in August. As a result of the affair, Naylor, who taught at the Los Angeles private school her daughter attended, is said to have become pregnant. But she “didn’t have a baby” According to Go to CBS News.

Emhoff later acknowledged the incident. statement In an interview with CNN, he did not mention the woman’s name or the alleged pregnancy.

During a debate with Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, Walz claimed he was “friends with the school shooter” and was asked if he was in Hong Kong during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. He made several blunders, such as losing his temper when he was playing. The Democratic governor also faced significant backlash during the campaign over allegations that he had his “courage stolen.”

Walz is said to have left the battalion in 2005 while in service after learning that the battalion was to be deployed to Iraq. Despite denying the allegation in August, two veterans who served with him criticized him in a 2018 letter, saying he “betrayed his country” by leaving the military before deploying. he accused. According to In the New York Post.

“All their sins have been washed away. It’s a kind of replacement, surrogate Christianity. And that awakening, that sensibility, that feminism, or whatever its isms are, the doctrines of faith in sensitive masculinity that you It teaches you that if you accept and have lived with toxic masculinity all your life, these things are forgiven as part of that penance. The sins are washed away,” Hanson said. “You’re looking for a hiding place. You’re looking for repentance from that, and you see it everywhere. Bill Clinton was a master at that.”

“I’m sorry, viewers, but I didn’t say that a key characteristic of sensitive men and new masculinities is that they have to support feminist issues, two of which are trans-chauvinism. You have to be strong against it and you have to abort until the moment of birth. And when you press those two buttons, you become really, really sensitive,” Hanson said. .

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