It's Not Cool To Be Progressive Anymore

The normie right are the new cool kids.

I’m not sure of the exact moment when progressivism became culturally uncool, but it did. By “cool” I mean everyone and everything on the left largely defined the cultural zeitgeist, Hollywood, art, academia, all of it. Now, not so much.

Maybe it all started when women wore pink, knitted, vaginal hats or when Hillary Clinton tried to be down with black Americans by bragging about hot sauce in her purse. Maybe it’s when they tried to mentally force-feed trans ideology to kids in the most uncomfortable of ways. Or when they forced everyone to stay indoors for over a year, wear useless masks, inject experimental non-vaccines that provided zero immunity, and sent people to jail for trying to work and pay bills. Maybe it’s when they stopped being able to take a joke or chose to be all the time constantly offended. Or maybe it’s when they all started to look like this:

I don’t know when it began but I do know when it ended: the epitaph of “cool progressivism” officially ended when they tried to make Kamala Harris a thing by sending her on podcasts with people she clearly didn’t know to plant her flag in the cultural zeitgeist.

I asked people on X if they could pinpoint the moment they realized that progressivism became uncool. I’ll share some of the answers on air tomorrow.

Gamergate, smearing masculinity, mocking actual traditionally American values, people grew tired of progressive’s nonstop grievance industry. Nobody likes a person or group who is always negative, combative, and perpetually looking for offense, whether political or not. This was a shift decades in the making.

The phenomenon hasn’t gone unnoticed:

Instead of taking a knee to call for social justice, NFL players are doing the “Trump dance” in the end zone at football games. Mainstream entertainers, among them the country singer Carrie Underwood and the rapper Snoop Dogg, agreed to perform at events celebrating Donald Trump’s inauguration, something music stars largely shunned eight years ago.

A new generation of Trump-friendly comedians and wellness influencers is populating YouTube and other social media, while a snippet of audio featuring Barron and Melania Trump has become one of the hottest online memes, with celebrities such as Paris Hilton and brands including Frontier Airlines using it in their TikTok and Instagram posts.

The contrived hate for Trump and the right dissipated after the election except within a few strongholds on the left. It took the entirety of the left, their media, Hollywood and the academic world — they made an entire industry of it —- to run offense against the right. When voters got the chance to choose between normal and batsh*t crazy last November they overwhelmingly picked normal. It was the normie election. They wanted normal prices, normal lives, normal bills, normal problems, normal everything. They weren’t asking for the world, just normalcy.

Democrats like James Carville sounded the alarm a few years ago, David Axelrod a year or so ago, but the radical base of the Democrat party didn’t care to listen. They weren’t interested in coalition-building, something operatives before them like Carville had done, they wanted total ideological and cultural hegemony. Secretary Mayor New Mom Pete Buttigieg is now parroting Carville’s earlier warnings.

Unfortunately, it’s not going to happen. The far left activists pawns that Democrats long-used as agitators when it came time to GOTV demanded more. They wanted to control the party. Determined to keep them placated for future use, Democrats enshrined them within the party and adopted their stances as part of the official party platform. One of their most leftist, loudest nerds is now the Vice-Chair of the DNC. Axelrod and other operatives were part of the team that ran Obama/Biden and laid the foundation for the catastrophe the Democrats are today.

Now they want their party back? To what? To their zygote stage of insane, illiberal, anti-science, antisemitic, full form?

Sure, but there’s no one left.

Most of the original Democrats are gone, having left to register as independents or vote Trump and join the right’s burgeoning new coalition. Whereas Democrats use judgment and harassment to keep members in line, the right’s coalition urges everyone to focus on that 80% (Reagan’s famous 80/20 rule where your 80% friend isn’t your 20% enemy). They struggle, but it’s nothing like the literal Maoist struggle sessions practiced by the left as public demonstrations of Marxist purity.

Progressivism (previously liberalism until Reagan ruined the word for them) was about … what, exactly? Progress where? With what? Bigger government? More taxes? More wars? More everyone on prescription drugs? More border chaos? It was always only ever a Marxist counter to the conservation of individual liberty, conservatism. It was about breaking society — and it nearly did — but people woke up, looked around, and voted accordingly.

Almost overnight America breathed a sigh of relief. Mainstream famous people started doing the Trump dance. Snoop Dogg, who previously made a video feigning to shoot POTUS, performed at a crypto inaugural ball. No one was afraid to wear a red hat anymore. It might be the post-election honeymoon period, but it may just be Trump moving fast to do everything he promised to do (Congress now needs to make it permanent). Democrats can’t compete.

I don’t know how the rest of the story will go, but I know for certain that Democrats won’t be the ones leading it.

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