The Democrats have an authenticity deficit

The Democratic Party has a problem. It is hemorrhaging male voters. Just as significant, and not unrelated, is the obvious inauthenticity of the candidates whom Democrats and their media boosters keep pushing on the public.

People will tolerate a lot, but a phony rarely goes far. (There are exceptions.) And say what you will about President Trump, but there’s no doubt he’s the same man behind closed doors as he is on stage.

The same cannot be said about the fictionalized characters whom Democrats and journalists have foisted on voters recently.

Front and center this month is self-identified Presbyterian seminarian James Talarico (D). He is running for a U.S. Senate seat in Texas, having defeated Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) last week in the Democratic primary. Talarico’s biggest challenge going into the general election, and not to put too fine a point on it, is that he is a progressive lunatic running in a red state. He and his fans in the press would like you to ignore the lunatic part.

In 2022, with the overturn of Roe v. Wade, he expressed concern about “our neighbors with a uterus” — this is how a radical progressive refers to “women” without using the word — had just become the “property of the state.”

In 2021, during a debate over a bill aimed at keeping biological males out of girls’ sports, Talarico professed that “God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is nonbinary.”

At another point in 2020, he declared, “White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus. But we spread it wherever we go — through........

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