Seth Liebsohn: Democrats Doubling Down on Radicalism

Recent stories in the New York Times report on how Democrats are trying to regain lost constituencies. One reports that the Democrats have a “$20 million effort, that aims to reverse the erosion of Democratic support among young men….” promising to “study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces.”

Let’s save them some money. Stop speaking like this—nobody understands it outside of a faculty lounge. Second: All this comes after 60 years of liberal social policy saying fathers don’t matter. Meanwhile, Marxist academics were writing books on toxic masculinity, with schools teaching boys to be ashamed of themselves. Why: they could even become girls! As John Dewey put it: “the philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”

The study of syntax and language about virality in spaces isn’t gonna do it. Here’s what might help Democrats: abandon the Marxist/Critical Theory radicalism and be normal.

I don’t see that happening anytime soon.

I’m Seth Leibsohn.

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