Defeating Democrats Will Require Us to Be Tough

By: Chris Johnson

A few weeks ago, I was looking for a TV show that my family could all enjoy together, and I stumbled across a competition reality show called “Tough as Nails.” The show brings together blue-collar workers from different parts of the country and stages them against each other as they compete to complete real-world jobs the fastest.

As I want my kids to admire “toughness” and to want to be “tough” themselves, we watched the first season which included a drywaller, a farmer, a roofer, a fireman, a prison guard, a commercial fisherman, and a military veteran, etc.

We enjoyed the show, and I looked up reviews to see how others had received it and was surprised to find a low rating. Nearly every negative comment was from a female viewer who was disappointed that the tough tasks chosen for the competitions gave a disadvantage to the women!

This may be an unpopular opinion in 2025, but I think it’s pretty obvious that, in general, men are more likely to be “tough as nails” than women in the sense that the work featured on the show requires. Sawing lumber, slinging bales, fighting fires, etc. – select women can do those jobs well and do so on the show, but you have to look a lot harder for those women than you do for a man capable of doing the same jobs.

But then again, perhaps that’s not as unpopular an idea as we’ve been led to believe. It’s exactly that kind of refusing to embrace reality that lost Democrats the most recent election.

What’s interesting about “Tough as Nails” is that it focuses on a demographic which Democrats blame, in part, for their 2024 losses: the working class, the union-members, the kind of people leftist Bruce Springsteen had in mind when he sang “My Hometown.”

Yet, illegal immigration was one of the most important voting issues because American workers sense that illegal aliens are taking work opportunities from them. Blue-collar workers see the fruit of their blood, sweat, and tears go to ridiculous government bloat or foreign interests that offer them no benefit. It’s union members who’ve been made to sit through reality-denying DEI training with straight faces. And, of course, it’s American workers who’ve been hurt by their factories being moved overseas in pursuit of a globalist vision.

These have been the defining policies of Democrats under their last three presidencies.

Amil Imani wrote a piece for the Geller Report titled, The Democrats Are the Gravest Threat to Our Nation: “Once a cornerstone of American political life, the Democrat Party has transformed into something unrecognizable—a force that now threatens the very fabric of the nation. Historically a party of working-class advocacy and progressive reform, it has strayed from its roots in recent years to adopt a radical, anti-American agenda. This transformation warrants scrutiny, as the stakes for the United States could not be higher.”

Victor Davis Hanson at American Greatness observes that the recent faltering of the Democrat party is evidence of change: “On matters of trade, immigration, and foreign policy, we are witnessing a counter-revolutionary effort to erase the madness of the Biden revolutionary years.”

The MAGA agenda may seem radical compared to what we’ve been used to over the last few decades, but that’s just because the Trump administration is trying to undo quickly the slow decay we’ve become so used to living in.

And the Democrat party, the champion of this decay, continues to falter after the election. Recent polls have the party’s approval at just 27% percent. As Rod Martin frames it, “more Americans believe in ALIENS than support the Democrat Party right now.”

Meanwhile, Trump’s approval is reaching record highs, as the March 16 NBC poll reveals: “more registered voters see the U.S. as heading in the right direction than at any point since early 2004…” and “Trump’s approval rating also equals his best-ever mark as president (47%) …”

Democrat response to this shift covers a spectrum with one end represented by Democrat political consultant Doug Schoen who argued in an op-ed that his party shouldn’t be afraid of pushing for a secure border, cutting government regulation, and embracing school choice. The other end of the spectrum is setting owners’ and dealers’ Teslas on fire in protest of Trump supporter and Tesla founder Elon Musk.

The good news is that the Democrat party is currently an unpopular place to be. The bad news is that the next generation of leadership in the modern Democrat party is far more beholden to the pyromaniac end of the spectrum and they are not done fighting. For now, they’re fighting in the defunct information space of cable news, celebrity endorsements, and – more effectively – in lower courts – and, of course, by setting things on fire. But weaponized “victimhood” is a powerful weapon in elections, and Democrats will find new ways to wield it.

Conservatives will need to be “tough as nails” in the months and years ahead as new norms continue to be shattered in the return to old norms in this “counter-revolution.” Tactics may include the president defying lower-court activist judges’ unconstitutional orders and harsh sentencing for American terrorists who firebomb their political opponents’ cars.

If law and order are going to rule in the US, the lawless left is going to play the victim, and we have to be tough enough to not fall for it.

 

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