Everyone is piling on Jake Tapper these days (including me). But sometimes he makes sense:
Tapper and his Original Sin co-author Alex Thompson joined Scott Galloway on The Prof G Pod on Thursday, and Tapper at one point recounted how a left-leaning podcaster made a racism jab about his son after Tapper revealed he wanted to go into law enforcement.
“My son is now 15 years old, and he’s a gamer. He’s a football fan, starting linebacker on his varsity football team. The Democratic Party has no way of communicating with him. They have no entree into his world,” Tapper said during a discussion on the Democratic Party’s struggles to reach young men.
Interesting. What, exactly, do the Democrats have to offer the large majority of young men who are not interested in getting a sex change operation?
“Their joke was about my 15-year-old son, ‘Oh, how does he feel about minorities?’ Like the idea that he wants to be a policeman, therefore he’s, he’s racist, my son. And like, you know, that was the big laugh. And then I got dragged in the comments and all that stuff and, and I thought to myself, ‘This is why you fuckers are losing elections,’” Tapper said.
Indeed.
“He’s 15. He thinks about World War II and gaming and playing linebacker, that’s his world,” Tapper said about his son. “You’re deciding he’s a racist because he wants to be a cop. And why does he want to be a cop? He wants to be a cop because he wants to help people, you know, and he thinks that’s the best way he can help people. And that’s how the Democratic Party talks to men, not just white men, but men.”
It is, indeed. And I don’t see any sign that the Democratic Party is interested in changing its ways. Instead, like Spinal Tap, the Democrats seem satisfied with an appeal that grows ever more selective.
Via Ann Althouse.
I should add that Jake Tapper has done some very good things. He wrote a book called The Outpost about a firefight in the war in Afghanistan. In writing the book, Tapper worked closely with the soldiers who survived that battle. The Outpost is an excellent book that exudes respect for fighting men and the military ethos. Years ago, I interviewed Tapper about The Outpost on the old Power Line Podcast. Criticize him all you like, but Tapper has done work that raises him well above the average brain-dead left-wing journalist.
