I recently did a pleasant interview with Daily Wire about my new political thriller novel The Washington Trail. At the end, the interviewer asked me every author’s dream question, but which I had a hard time answering. If, and when, The Washington Trail gets made into a movie,
which actors do you see playing Mark Slade and Neil Cork (my two private-eye heroes)?
My trouble, I said, is that Slade and Cork are straight young (32) white men who like pretty women, and I haven’t seen a recent movie featuring the type in a decade. Most current actors play asexual often minority acolytes to some ubiquitous and ridiculous Girl Boss protagonist. This trend applies to even formerly male-driven franchises like Mad Max.
A working young superhero franchise star, Zachary (Shazam) Levi, just openly and fearlessly endorsed Trump for President.
In Mad Max: Fury Road, Tom Hardy’s Max is second fiddle to Charlize Theron’s Amazonian Furiosa. The picture did just well enough to spawn a prequel, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, totally absent Max. Naturally, the film bombed when the target audience, young men, stayed away in droves. The same went for the female-led Star Wars disaster The Acolyte, which normal men mocked off the TV screen. (READ MORE from Lou Aguilar: Trump the True Barbarian)
It’s not just entertainment they’re turning off. It’s the entire mainstream culture that hates them, represented by a political party which demonizes them while lauding the shrill feminist elite and their obsequious beta-male contingent. The Democrats had a sufficient number of the latter to ignore the alphas as deplorables.
They thought they could pass the empty, unctuous DEI-hire Vice President who slept her way into politics as an impressive leader, along with their clueless notion of a masculine running mate. The liberal media dutifully did its part to boost them, projecting Kamala Harris as Hillary II and Tim Walz as Nick Saban.
Every regime journalist swooned in sync over the couple’s “campaign of joy” almost like a sitcom laugh track. But anyone outside their mass hypnosis could see the reality. And baby-boomer men like me could quote from a once popular old poem: And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout/But there is no joy in Mudville — mighty Casey has struck out. So has the Harris-Walz campaign, thanks to men.
The desperate attempt to masculinize spasmic weirdo Walz — infamous for mandating Tampons in schoolboys’ bathrooms — has been the greatest source of humor in the race. Because those shaping the image have a cliched concept of normal male behavior. They think guys are dumb enough to swallow a video of Walz in cap and black T-shirt changing the carburetor of his truck complete with dog inside.
Why the poor animal is stuck in the truck while Walz does his macho mechanic shtick is something no imagemaker considered. But regular guys will and do. By contrast, all Donald Trump had to do last Saturday was walk into Bryant-Denny Stadium during the Alabama-Georgia game to get a rousing ovation. Conversely, Walz got booed entering the Michigan game.
This election is no longer just about Republicans versus Democrats, conservatives versus liberals, or minorities versus white people. It’s increasingly about real men and women, of all ethnicities versus unpleasant, unhappy feminist women — those whom James Carville called “preachy females” and J.D. Vance “single cat ladies.” And you can feel the testosterone rising and recognize the signs.
In 2016, 51 percent of young men identified as or leaned Democrat. The number dropped to 39 percent in 2023.
An NAACP poll found over a quarter of black men under 50 support Donald Trump.
And Latinos, led by men, have overwhelmingly shifted to Trump. According to the New York Times, “Mr. Trump has found new support among Latinos who work in law enforcement along the Mexican border, Cuban Americans in Florida averse to policies they view as approaching socialism, evangelical Christians attracted to Christian nationalism and second- and third-generation U.S.-born Latinos who are more likely to identify with and vote like their white peers.
Gen Z men are pouring into church pews more than same age women, also according to the New York Times. “For the first time in modern American history, young men are now more religious than their female peers. They attend services more often and are more likely to identify as religious.” (READ MORE: Hollywoke Heroes and Movies We’ll Never See)
A working young superhero franchise star, Zachary (Shazam) Levi, just openly and fearlessly endorsed Trump for President. “We don’t live in a perfect world,” Levi said. “In fact, we live in a very broken one. We live in a country that has been hijacked by a lot of people who want to take this place way off the cliff, and we’re here to stop that.”
Kamala Harris may have the group of cringeworthy male wimps called White Dudes for Harris. Even their recruitment ad totally misses the point by starting with an apology for their white manhood. “Hey, white dudes. So, I think we’re all pretty sick of hearing how much we suck. Every time we go online it’s the same story. ‘We’re the problem.’ And, yeah, some white dudes are.” While Trump has the hysterical upbeat Frat Boys for Trump.
Wonder Who They’re Voting For: “Donald J. Trump, all the way baby!” The Alabama frats are ready to Make America Great Again! #Alabama #Georgia pic.twitter.com/UQARoh0oGG
— John Cremeans USA (@JohnCremeansUSA) September 29, 2024
As for which actor I’d like to see my detective hero, Mark Slade, I finally cited one to the Daily Wire interviewer. “If there’s a young Sean Connery out there, then I’d love to hear him say, “My name is Slade — Mark Slade.”
Get the perfect mystery novel for Christmas — my timely new detective thriller, The Washington Trail.
“Slade and Cork are on the case! An old fashioned tough-guy detective novel with a modern twist, The Washington Trail will keep you guessing until the very end.”
— Faith Moore, author of Saving Cinderella and Christmas Karol
Lou Aguilar, author of ‘The Washington Trail’