Mr. Right Daily Caller Masculinity Consultant
The right has a problem.
Because we are so inured to popular culture being so liberal, conservatives tend to latch on to fleeting, viral figures who do not have a conservative bone in their body yet oppose the consensus in some way, whether intentionally or not. The most prominent example is Hailey Welch, also known as “Hawk Tuah” girl, who blew up in June when she discussed blowjobs on camera and how women should “spit on that thang!” for male stimulation.
The memes flooded in, especially from the right, due to Welch’s conservative-coded southern accent and appearance: cowboy hat, denim, that sort of thing. Memes galore. Too many memes, perhaps, that her star faded fast as people got sick of her. She later made a unique career choice by starting a podcast called “Talk Tuah”, where she will host “real” conversations with “real” people — a very original idea, and I’m frankly shocked no one had thought of it before.
For several weeks in June and July, conservatives celebrated Welch and said she single-handedly ended Pride Month and made heterosexuality cool again. Did they know what her politics were? No, of course not. Does it matter what her politics were? No, of course not. Did conservatives put a trashy internet figure on a pedestal and briefly worship her as a shallow symbol of rebellion against liberalism? Of course they did.
Now, we have the “tits for Trump” Only Fans chick who was recently caught flashing her knockers at a Trump rally in New York. Although the Trump flasher isn’t nearly as viral as Hawk Tuah girl — thankfully — her attempt to latch onto right-wing politics and get famous from it is telling. This is what conservative culture has become. Essentially fake e-harlots using conservatives to start an internet career. I honestly give the Trump flasher credit for recognizing this phenomenon and trying to capitalize.
The knee-jerk, swarming reaction from conservatives nowadays has gotten so bad that I’m convinced if the ghost of Osama Bin Laden floated up from hell and endorsed Donald Trump for president, people on the right would be clapping and cheering and making pro-Bin Laden memes. “Bin Laden’s ghost endorsing Trump. Didn’t see this on my 2024 bingo chart.” If transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney decided to stop play-acting as a woman, bought a Ford F-250 truck, got a job as an underwater welder, and married a pastor’s demure daughter from Baton Rouge, conservatives would be so titillated they’d celebrate him as a “detransitioner”. Bud Light sales would skyrocket. “Mulvaney is a dude again? We are so back.”
It’s embarrassing. Conservatives need to have a little more class and a little more taste if they want to influence culture beyond the 24 hour news cycle and the Twitter trending section.
