Nonsense and rejection

On Tuesday, Americans soundly rejected the most progressive candidate ever to run for president of the United States. The immediate, visceral reaction of Democrats was to claim that Americans had failed the republic over misogyny, racism, transphobia, and other bigotry. What Americans were actually rejecting was the nonsense of a party governed by the neuroses of progressive white women battling mental illness and a set of wealthy gay men.

In mid-October, Donald Trump’s campaign released an advertisement called “Nonsense.” The ad begins with popular radio commentator Charlamagne laughing about Kamala Harris’ far-left policies and features her openly discussing using federal taxpayer dollars to pay for the gender transitions of felons in federal prison. The ad ends with an image of Harris with Sam Brinton, President Joe Biden’s former deputy assistant secretary in the Office of Nuclear Energy, and Rachel Levine, the U.S. assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services. Brinton is the bald man who dresses in heels and wears red lipstick. Levine is a transgender activist.

After showing Harris with Brinton and Levine, the ad closes with a smiling Hispanic family. “Kamala Harris is for they/them,” the voice-over says, adding, “Donald Trump is for you.” Democratic strategists, not Republicans, told me that the ad is what killed all of Harris’ upward mobility in the polls and resuscitated Trump’s campaign, which had gone off message. Democratic strategists close to the Harris campaign told me they saw noticeable movement toward Trump in their surveys of black and Hispanic voters after that ad ran.

The reaction from the press and Democrats was to scream “transphobia” and blast Republicans for hate. But the ad worked. The same Democratic strategists who revealed their own data to me also have made another key point to understand this election. At the upper echelons of the Democratic Party and in the newsrooms of America sit a group of neurotic white progressive women and gay men who have nothing in common with middle-class Americans and think the way to relate is through sex and weed.

In fact, that was the closing pitch of Democrats. They promised abortion on demand, free contraception, and legal weed. Working-class and middle-class American voters want jobs, towns not overrun by illegal aliens, and safe streets and schools. Instead, they would get more drugs, abortion businesses, and pornographic sex education classes for their children.

Progressive white women are the largest sufferers of mental illness in this country. They have massively higher rates of depression and despair. The only group that comes close to them is progressive white men. The most powerful Democratic donors are progressive gay men and white women who have dictated the Democrats’ leftward drift on social issues and progressive economics that actually do not benefit non-white voters. These are the people who use the term “Latinx” to be inclusive—a made-up word incompatible with the Spanish language lexicon. These are the people who think Israelis are “colonizers” and who march in solidarity with terrorists.

The neurotic white women and gay men at the top of the Democratic Party created a Harris campaign that ran on “joy” but offered no substance. When it did not work, party officials abandoned it for “threats to democracy,” “protect abortions,” and lectures on how the working class should thank Biden for a good economy and stop believing their lived experience that reflected higher costs without higher wages.

The elite gay men and neurotic white women in charge are often childless and even more often of high income. They live in a bubble and do not feel the extraordinary economic burdens most Americans feel. They also want to impose their unbridled hedonistic worldview on the rest of America. In the name of advancing the trans kid, they are willing to deprive the middle-class daughter of immigrants of a sports scholarship that could get her into college, and you are a bigot if you stand in the way.

These Democrats ran a campaign that was lecturing, preening, censorious, and dripping with contempt for Americans who did not think or look like them. In 2016, Hillary Clinton’s campaign, run out of Brooklyn, N.Y., famously rejected former President Bill Clinton’s advice to appeal to the working class. In 2024, working from Delaware, the Democrats tried to make that appeal based on sex, drugs, and Beyoncé without the singing. They failed because they did not relate to anyone other than those like themselves.

On Election Day, voters went to the polls and decided they would rather side with the party of conspiracists who think the Biden administration steered hurricanes to Florida and North Carolina than with the mentally ill Democrats who think boys can become girls and those who disagree are Nazis.