There is something very “Lumberjack Song” about the campaign to make Tim Walz into John Wayne. That Monty Python song starts with a promising message of hard work and cutting down trees but ends with buttered scones, skipping, and recreational transvestitism.
Does the Tim Walz trajectory end with us finding out that he crochets?
Right now Democrats imagine him the way everyone else sees Chuck Norris: The dinosaurs looked at Tim Walz the wrong way once—you know what happened to them. Okay, so that’s a bad Chuck Norris joke that somebody else came up with. But, it sums up the current Democrat delusion. (READ MORE: This Time, We ALL Have Dodged a Different Kind of Bullet)
The headlines tell the story, er, the narrative: “Tim Walz is giving MAGA a masterclass in manhood” (MSNBC), “Masculinity’s check-engine light is on. Let Tim Walz have a look” (Washington Post), and “Tim Walz at the Minnesota State Fair redefines BDE: Big Dad Energy” (Vanity Fair).
Democrats Are Learning from Donald Trump
Who better than Derek Guy to assure us that Tim Walz is a guy’s guy — or wants others to see him that way? The Politico writer informs that for a Harris rally, “the governor showed up in a pair of Carhartt work pants, rugged work shoes and a camouflage cap decorated with the U.S. Special Forces crest,” for a Biden event “he wore a tan canvas, corduroy-collared L.L. Bean barn coat with blue jeans and a ball cap that read ‘Minnesota Grown,’” and that for party retreats he “sports quarter-neck zip fleeces under what appears to be a buffalo-plaid Filson Mackinaw Cruiser, a classic among Midwestern hunters and outdoorsmen.”
The epiphany finally struck Democrats when that bullet struck Donald Trump: He appeals to men in part because his best traits coincide with the best about the best men. He did not hide under the stage, wet his pants, or start crying after an assassin shot him. He raised a fist, mean-mugged, and shouted “fight.” At that moment, Democrats knew they needed not just to change their nominee but to change their messaging as well.
This is why Democrats falsely claimed that JD Vance wears eyeliner, why a U.S. senator falsely claimed on CNN that the former Marine never served, and why Democrats concocted a nonexistent passage from Hillbilly Elegy maintaining its author copulates with living room furniture (it’s all very I-can-see-Russia-from-my-house dishonest). (READ MORE: Will Big Media Give Walz the Vance Treatment? Don’t Bet On It.)
This is why Democrats portrayed Trump as chickening out by not initially agreeing to debate the Democratic candidate on yet another left-wing network and Harris uses the “say it to my face” line.
This is why White Dudes for Harris, Win with Black Men, Dads for Kamala, Men for Harris, and other such identity-politics groups suddenly, and not very spontaneously, popped up.
Let’s just face it,” a source familiar with Harris’s running mate decision-making process told NBC News. “There’s a lot of sexist, racist white dudes out there in America who don’t like Trump but just need a little extra validation.”
Democrats Don’t Understand Men. Tim Walz is Proof.
Leave aside that they hate the voters whose ballots they chase, they clearly do not understand men. Men, at least the kind Tim Walz currently identifies as, do not need “validation.” They also do not sit around discussing manliness, machismo, or masculinity provided that they do not lack it.
The people who struggle to tell you what a woman is know a man when they see one: Tim Walz. We should trust their judgment why?
Like the “Lumberjack Song,” this all ends in disappointment. Voters eventually find out that Governor Walz signed a “Trans Refuge Bill” that allows underage kids to travel to Minnesota to get castrated. His “Lumberjack Song,” which begins by stressing his bona fides as a dad, football coach, and enlisted man, ends with him touting the virtues of mastectomy, penile mutilation, tampons in the boys’ restrooms, and puberty blockers for kids not unlike the ones he once taught. (READ MORE: Tim Walz’s Message on Murdering Babies: ‘Mind Your Own Damn Business’)
One can almost see Kamala Harris wearing a ribbon in her hair with her pride turned to shame, exclaiming through tears: “Oh, Tim and I thought you were so rugged.”