EPISODE · Jul 16, 2026 · 9 MIN
Charlie James debates Democratic masculinity and is called by a listener.
from The Charlie James Show Podcast
Host Charlie James begins the second hour of his Thursday afternoon show by playing a crowd chanting the Pledge of Allegiance and the national anthem, reminding listeners of his upcoming 4:35 PM interview with South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Dr. Annie Andrews. He then launches into a segment arguing that the Democratic Party has a "man problem" and is struggling to appeal to male voters after years of promoting theories of "toxic masculinity". Highlighting an article from The Atlantic written by Russell Berman, James mocks progressive efforts to reclaim traditional masculinity by spotlighting blue-collar Democratic candidates like Brian Poindexter and utilizing running mates like Governor Tim Walz. He asserts that these depictions are nothing more than a superficial, theatrical pantomime of manhood. Finally, he takes a call from listener Dave in Spartanburg, who raises questions about how Dr. Andrews was recruited and whether she will remain a moderate or flip to progressive stances once elected.
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Full Transcript Crowd: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Singer: Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea! Charlie James: America is back! Yes, sir, and we are back. Don't forget, coming up at 4:35 this afternoon, we'll be talking with Dr. Annie Andrews, the Democratic candidate for Senate here in South Carolina. Well, one thing that the Democrats have is a—they've got a man problem. They've got a serious man problem because they were the ones that started all of this ideology, all of this rhetoric about toxic masculinity. "If you aren't in touch with your feelings... If you didn't get in touch with your feminine side, if you weren't a feminist in a man's body... then you suffered from toxic masculinity. Oh, my goodness!" Well, right now, they realize they got a problem with that because they lost men big time. Saw it during the 2024 election. Men abandoned the Democratic Party in droves. And who did they turn to? Trump and Vance. And the reasons for this is—is obvious. They've been demonizing men for years, calling masculinity toxic. So, at some point, men started saying, "You know what? All right, we get it. We get it, we understand. We're not welcome in your party." And they left. They just left. So, then, they—they—they—they actually, they literally tried to overcompensate with Graham Plattner. They got this guy who claimed to be a—he's an oyster farmer from Maine. Oh, look at—he made $5,000 harvesting oysters. $5,000. Well, well, not only that, he's a harbor master. All he did was paperwork. That was it. It was—that’s—that’s all he did. "Well, he's—he's got a tattoo." Yeah, it's a Totenkopf tattoo from the SS. "Well, he's—he's—he's a womanizer." Yeah, he is a womanizer! He is a womanizer, absolutely. Does that not make him masculine? No. No, doesn't work. So now they're really trying to compensate. And the liberal media is aware that men are leaving the Democrat Party in droves. And they're trying to help the Democrats out because that's what they do. The mainstream media always trying to help the—the Atlantic posted a story: "The Democratic Manly Man is Back." Listen to—to the headline: "The Democratic Manly Man is Back. Russell Berman reports with the party embracing masculinity as a campaign strategy." Oh, men, you are now a campaign strategy from the Democrats! So, in this piece, listen to this. This—this is perfect: Brian Poindexter had just finished wolfing down a Reuben sandwich in a deli outside Cleveland, where he delivered a message that, coming from a Democratic House candidate in the year 2026, sounded almost provocative. "There's nothing wrong with being masculine," Poindexter said. "It's okay to be a manly man." Poindexter's own manliness credentials are fully in order. The 46-year-old started working in a machine shop as a teenager and spent years hauling furniture across the country before finding stability as a union ironworker. He drives a Ram Big Horn pickup truck and built with his buddy turned campaign manager, a shed in his back— He built a shed in his backyard? Vote for that guy! Vote for that dude! Now Poindexter is running for Congress, trying to flip the Republican-held seat in Ohio with a pitch aimed at a constituency that has abandoned the Democrat Party over the past two decades: men. Oh, okay. All right, that's—that's perfect. That's perfect. Do—we all remember those ads from Kamala Harris with these "manly men" out there, and—and they were horrible. They really were bad. Every one of them was—was awful. And then they—they brought out Tim Walz. And that—Tim Walz was supposed to be their idea of the new Democrat masculinity. Tim Walz, the jazz hand and high-kic ...
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