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According to court records, I have two children. Because IAm so gosh-darn manly, both my children are boys. (aCause thatAs how genetics works.) Therefore, IAve never had to give my kids othe talko u but I have plenty
of friends and relatives with adolescent girls, so I know how othe talko
goes:

oHoney, sit down. ItAs time you learned the truth. You have to be careful
out there, because boys your age are only aftera one thing. ItAs all they
care about!o

Yeah: That one thing is raising children.

ItAs one of the strangest, most unexpected evolutions in modern politics. Almost no one saw it coming: Gen Z men and Gen Z women have switched traditional gender roles on the importance of children.

From NBC News:

The gender gap between men and women has been a durable fact of life in American politics u and nowhere is this gap larger than among the youngest cohort of American adults, Gen Z.

But itAs not just politics driving the divide. The latest NBC News
Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey shows how the political gender
gap persists alongside different social beliefs between young men and
women.

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Gen Z men who voted for Trump rate having children as the most important
thing in their personal definition of success. Gen Z women who voted for Harris ranked having children as the second-least important thing in their personal definition of success.

The friction between single, childless women and married families is the perfect wedge issue for the GOP to exploit, because it speaks to the aspirational goals of both parties: Republican men define success by being wealthy enough to be a father and support a family.

Yet Democratic women define success by being wealthy enough to no longer
need a man or a family.

Those two political visions are incompatible. Candidates who cater to the former risk alienating the latter.

The GOP should force the Dems to split the difference.

If politics is a numbers game, then the numbers favor the GOP: There are roughly 268 million Americans over the age of 15. Just 42.7 million are
women whoAve never been married. (Another 14.6 million are divorced
women.)

By contrast, there are over 136 million married Americans. Married couples
u plus all the Gen Z men who aspire to be married u are BY FAR the more important demographic.

ItAs a helluva dilemma for the Dems, because you canAt be all things to
all people. The priorities of families and the priorities of unmarried
women are simply different. The fault lines are obvious. (And increasingly unavoidable.)

Unmarried women care about the Patriarchy, toxic masculinity, shattering
glass ceilings, equal pay, DEI, #MeToo, and abortion on demand. Illegal
aliens arenAt their job competition u theyAre (super-cheap) dog walkers, housemaids, landscapers, repairmen, and nail technicians. So why on earth would anyone be against illegal aliens?

Additionally, unmarried women tend to view men as a oproblemo that must be fixed.

Married couples u especially ones with little boys u are utterly repulsed
by that mentality. They recognize it as a serious obstacle to their
childrenAs happiness.

But unmarried women have become one of the DemocratsA most reliable voting blocs. Unmarried women voted 61% for Kamala Harris. (For unmarried men, it
was a 48% to 48% split.) The Dems canAt win elections without a loyal army
of unmarried women u and they canAt drive 'em to the polls without selling
'em juicy red meat on the campaign trail.

Yet the same red meat that motivates unmarried women will further alienate married men, married women, AND unmarried Gen Z men.

So the Democrats settled on a novel strategy: TheyAll still cater to
unmarried womena but deliver their message via an oavataro who cosplays as
a macho dude.

ThatAs the holy grail for the Dems: A man who thinks and behaves exactly
like a radical feminist, yet looks and sounds like a rough-and-tumble
Alpha male.

ItAs the strategy behind Graham PlatnerAs senatorial bid in Maine. (aCause what could be more manly than a Nazi tattoo?) It was the strategy behind Kamala HarrisA V.P. selection of oAmericaAs coach,o Gov. Tim Walz (D-
Minn.). And itAs the strategy behind their latest scheme to turn Texas
blue, the Senate campaign of the DemsA current oit boy,o James Talarico. ThereAs a lot riding on TalaricoAs unique brand of masculinity.

But the Dems are already fretting about TalaricoAs masculinity being
(ahem) neutered.

From The 19th: oRepublicans Want to Make the Texas Senate Race About Manlinesso

Republicans are focusing on one question in one of NovemberAs top races:
Is the Democrat a real man?

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who clinched the GOPAs nomination for
U.S. Senate on Tuesday night, released a new ad Wednesday u his first of
the general election u accusing his opponent, state Sen. James Talarico,
of being too olow-T for Texas.o oLow-To is a reference to testosterone
levels and often used as an insult by influencers in the so-called
manosphere, who say low testosterone makes someone weaker.

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, the architect of
President Donald TrumpAs immigration policy and one of his top advisers, picked up on a similar line of attack, posting on the social media
platform X on Wednesday that Democrats had nominated the otheir first transgender senate candidate.o Talarico is cisgender and identifies as an LGBTQ+ ally; he is in a relationship with a woman.

Well, Talarico claims heAs in a relationship with a woman. So far, he
hasnAt revealed her name u a fact that Jesse Watters of Fox News had fun lampooning.

From The Wrap:

oHe says just recently that he has a girlfriend and that theyAve been
together for four years. He called her his best friend,o Watters said.
oHeAs not revealing her identity because he wants to respect her privacy
and keep her safe during the campaign.o

oDoes she live in Canada?o another co-host chimes in.

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oWhy havenAt we ever seen her before?o Watters added on Fox News. oDoes
she exist? WeAre gonna find out. If he wins, are they going to have a
coming out party? Or is she still gonna stay the secret girlfriend?o

(In defense of Talarico, when I was in high school, most of my girlfriends were imaginary, too.)

ThatAs the biggest PR problem with TalaricoAs brand of masculinity: HeAs a feministAs idea of the perfect man. (So was Tim Walz.) In fact, Talarico actually claimed that oJesus Christ himself was a radical feminist.o

But heAs not what other men aspire to be u which is why his PR campaign
will fail.

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ItAs a clever strategy for his GOP opponent, Ken Paxton, because hammering TalaricoAs (inadequate) manhood forces him to either double down on his masculinity u which will demotivate his base of unmarried women u or
forfeit his Man Card and be branded as an anti-meat, six-gendered, God- isnAt-binary feminist nutjob.

TalaricoAs #1 weakness is that heAs astonishingly out of step with Texas values. Attacking him as oLow-To is a gateway accusation that also shines
a bright light on his litany of weird posts, radical tweets, and ocringey commentso:


Meanwhile, Texas men are less concerned with the ovirus of racismo and
more concerned with affording a family of their own. Married Texans want a candidate whoAll make life better for them and their children u including their male children.

But unmarried women want something else.

Over the long-term, the Democrats must change how American men view masculinity: If they can get us to accept James Talarico, Tim Walz, and
Graham Platner as modern models of masculinity, theyAll win in a
landslide.

ThatAs their ultimate PR goal u and theyAll move heaven and earth to make
it happen.

Farfetched? Maybe, maybe not: Look what happened to Gen Z women.

Who wouldAve predicted that partisan politics would supersede the maternal instincts of an entire generation of women?

ThereAs a gender war coming. Better get ready. And better start swinging,
a la Ken Paxton.

Because in this war, itAs better to be on offense than defense.

Recommended: Just When You Thought the Bidens CouldnAt Go Any Lower, They
Grab a Shovel and Dig Straight to Hell

One Last Thing: 2026 is a critical year for America First. It began with
Mayor Mamdani declaring war on orugged individualismo and will reach a crescendo with the midterm elections. Nothing less than the fate of the America First movement teeters in the balance.

Never before have the political battle lines been so clearly defined. Win
or lose, 2026 will transform our country.

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