I'm Ready for the Female Takeover of the Democratic Party
The Venusification of the Democratic Party is on, and this man says it’s high time.
MICHAEL TOMASKY
05.18.18 5:05 AM ET
Some of you will recall that back in the Dubya era, a good chunk of the pundit class decided after the 9/11 attacks that America needed a hero, so they set about converting Bush into Churchill. Well, sometimes Churchill, other times Gary Cooper. The Churchill line was met with more derision, but I actually found the latter comparison much more offensive than the former. Gary Cooper never shot first. That was the entire basis of his moral authority.
Anyway. Turning this scraggly, Vietnam-ducking rich kid into a macho figurine required the concomitant feminization of the Democratic Party. Some among you will remember the book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, an early 1990s self-help book. Neocon Robert Kagan appropriated the title for an Iraq-era polemical book of his own, Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus. By Americans, of course, Kagan really meant war-loving Americans, who were Martian in their ardor for combat, while Europeans and other Americans—mostly Democrats and women—were from Venus (the Roman goddess of love, you see).
I couldn’t help think of all this Wednesday morning as I read the news of all the smashing electoral victories by Democratic women in Pennsylvania and Nebraska and elsewhere. Six women won Democratic primaries, and two more came within a hair’s breadth. This in a state that currently has 18 congressmen, emphasis on the “men” part. The Venusification of the Democratic Party is on, and this man says it’s high time.
I’m not trying to get some PC ticket punched. I’m not exactly Alan Alda (that’s a reference that dates me, but some of you will know what I mean). I like football, and bourbon, and the riff of “Under My Thumb,” although the lyrics do make me wince a little.
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