Vice President JD Vance appealed to younger Americans and delivered a powerful message on masculinity in a refreshing change from the word salads of his predecessor.
Vance spoke with host Mercedes Schlapp at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) on Thursday in National Harbor, Maryland.
“My message to young men is I think that our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge, you should try to cast aside your family, you should try to suppress what makes you a young man in the first place,” he said.
“And I think that my message to young men is don’t allow this broken culture to send you a message that you’re a bad person because you’re a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends, or because you’re competitive,” he continued to applause.
“The cultural message is I think that it wants to turn everybody, whether male or female, into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same, and act the same,” Vance added. “We actually think God made male and female for a purpose, and we want you guys to thrive as young men and as young women, and we are going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do that.”
Schlapp had asked the vice president about his message to young men but Vance prefaced his response with a message to all young people after thanking those who supported him and President Donald Trump in the election.
“I guess my message to young people generally is we’re trying to make your life better and that that is the simple thrust of President Trump’s policy is we want you to be able to buy a home, we want you to be able to work a good job, we want you to be able to raise your kids, like I said, according to the values that you believe in,” Vance said.
“And we want you to be able to build a nice life in this country that all of us love,” he continued, adding that those under 30 years old “are going to have to deal with the consequences of good policy or of bad policy for much longer than the rest of us.”
The vice president and father of three was lauded on social media for taking on the critics of so-called “toxic masculinity” and encouraging younger Americans.
I can’t love this enough!!!
— Sherry Hamilton (@sher12331) February 20, 2025
Thank you JD! My husband and I raised masculine sons. They are strong, intelligent, successful, wonderful human beings. There is nothing toxic about masculinity!!
— Red White & Blue Mama (@RedWhiteBluMama) February 21, 2025
We needed this ❤️
— Alex (@Alex94112269) February 21, 2025
Finally some common sense.
— Oakrarities (@oakrarities) February 20, 2025
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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