Democrats desperate to get back the young male voters who have abandoned the party in droves have taken to posting social media snaps of themselves sweating and lifting heavy things. Remember, this is the party that tried to sell us on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s masculinity and the sexiness of former Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff.
They want you to know what manly men (and feisty women) they are:
Democrats running in next year’s midterms are pumping out videos of themselves pumping iron.
In one video, Texas Senate candidate Colin Allred stands in his home gym after a workout and, still in a sweat, criticizes President Donald Trump’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. In another, Cait Conley, an Army veteran challenging New York Rep. Mike Lawler, talks about affordability as a video plays of her pressing weights over her head.
Here’s Conley trying to impress you with her power moves:
Life for working families in the Hudson Valley is too damn expensive, and the politicians who got us into this mess are not going to be the ones to get us out of it.
— Cait Conley (@CaitforNewYork) June 25, 2025
I’m running for congress to take on the cost of living crisis New Yorkers are facing. We need to increase the… pic.twitter.com/0Dr4PK2JDh
The post continues:
We need to increase the amount of affordable housing options for renters and home owners alike and ensure New Yorkers can get access to affordable credit like mortgages.
Meanwhile, Allred made sure you knew he was sweating from some serious weightlifting:
The American people were promised transparency around the Epstein files. We can’t allow corrupt politicians to hide the facts. pic.twitter.com/O9RBKZUmRj
— Colin Allred (@ColinAllredTX) July 18, 2025
Seems all well and good… but aren’t leftists the very folks who have been crying in recent years that fitness is basically a symbol of white supremacy and racism?
What's racist today? Today, jogging is racist (don't forget to warm up by stretching to find something racist) pic.twitter.com/eDlePS9FdG
— Leo Kearse - on YouTube & GB News (@LeoKearse) July 11, 2025
In 2022, Time Magazine published an article called—wait for it—"The White Supremacist Origins of Exercise, and 6 Other Surprising Facts About the History of U.S. Physical Fitness.” While I don’t totally discount the idea that some racists may have emphasized physical activity, it is hardly the only origin. In fact, Teddy Roosevelt—U.S. president from 1901 to 1909—hailed being in shape, and said in an 1899 speech called “the Strenuous Life”:
I preach to you, then, my countrymen, that our country calls not for the life of ease but for the life of strenuous endeavor. The twentieth century looms before us big with the fate of many nations. If we stand idly by, if we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then the bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.
Doesn’t sound all that white supremacist to me. According to The White House Historical Association, fitness was an obsession of his:
President Theodore Roosevelt’s exercise regimen was not for the faint of heart.
The president, a life-long believer in physical fitness and advocate of what he called “the strenuous life,” practiced what he preached. He kept up a vigorous exercise routine during his time in the White House that included tennis, hiking, and swimming.
Time Magazine and the New York Times are hardly the only leftist outfits that pushed this insanity:
According to MSNBC, if you exercise and work out, you’re a Nazihttps://t.co/h6uzdMmAdY pic.twitter.com/1APT6sJ1LB
— Larry Elder (@larryelder) July 11, 2023
The Democrats' efforts continue a trend we’ve been seeing since they lost the 2024 presidential election: they blame “messaging,” sexism, racism, unintelligent voters, and everything else they can think of while ignoring the obvious: their policies are terrible. Do they really think doing more exercise in the hopes of convincing the public they’re full of testosterone and vigor is going to change a whole lot of minds? Evidently they do:
Politicians working out in public is a bipartisan custom. But Democrats are increasingly posting weightlifting content in hopes of reaching male voters in the so-called “manosphere” that Trump mastered during his campaign. They are also trying to move past the ongoing arguments – fanned by Trump and Republicans on Capitol Hill – over former President Joe Biden’s physical and mental fitness.
“People want to see vigor, they want to see action, that you’re prepared to do the job, doing more than sitting behind a podium regurgitating a litany of nonsensical acronyms,” said Democratic strategist Joe Caiazzo.
Yes, Mr. Democrat Strategist, but they also want to see a party that isn’t focused on extreme gender ideology, a war on affordable energy, an open border, and higher taxes. Pumping some iron is fine, but you’re going to need a whole lot more than that to turn your wayward ship around.
