Democrats Hire Radical Feminist to Teach Them How to Talk to Men

The legacy media reported that the Democratic Party has spent $20 million on a study to teach them how to talk to men, but too few exposed the person leading that initiative — a radical, feminist abortion lobbyist with a long history of far-left activism who has championed identity politics, and defended the #MeToo notion that men accused of sexual harassment are guilty until proven innocent.

After President Trump won the male vote by 13 points last November, Democrats financed the Speaking with American Men (SAM) project to “study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in [young male] spaces.” It advised the party to buy ads on gaming podcasts and concluded, “Above all, we must shift from a moralizing tone.”

But the woman leading the Democrats’ efforts to reach men, SAM co-founder Ilyse Hogue, has perfected the Woke Left’s moralizing, maternalizing message for decades. Politico revealed Hogue co-founded SAM alongside Colin Allred, who raised nearly $100 million while losing the U.S. Senate race in Texas to Ted Cruz last fall by nine points, and pollster John Della Volpe.

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Hogue began her life of liberal activism in 1998 at Greenpeace, when police arrested her in the violent 1999 anti-World Trade Organization riots. She also worked for the Rainforest Action Network (which took part in the riots) from 2000 to 2006, then five years at the far-left, Soros-funded MoveOn.org and years at the equally left-wing, Soros-funded Media Matters for America. An ally once described Hogue as “the most radical person in the room.”

But Ilyse Hogue is best-known as the president of the abortion lobby group Reproductive Freedom for All (then NARAL Pro-Choice America) from 2013 to 2021. NARAL supports taxpayer-funded abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy without any protections for the baby, even one born alive.

The abortion lobbyist’s elevation comes as a new Gallup poll shows the number of men who identify as “pro-choice” fell by 7 points since the Dobbs decision, hitting a near-record low, as the gender gap reached an historic high.

Like many pro-abortion feminists, Hogue believes men should have no voice in a woman’s abortion. Hogue opposed a bill that would allow a father to have some say in whether a woman aborts his child, saying it exposed “the core of the anti-choice quest: control.” Hogue claims, in every pro-life law, “Patriarchy is the purpose. Punishment is the point.”

In 2020, she said, “White women have always participated in upholding white patriarchy; and if you oppose gender and racial equity, you are neither a feminist nor a friend.” In 2021 she added, “Reproductive oppression has always been a tactic for control — control of the white patriarchy over every one else.” Echoing Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment, Hogue branded “the GOP obsession with Hillary” as “the textbook definition of toxic patriarchy.”

Around November 22, Hogue diagnosed that males disconnected with Democrats over “a liberal culture that had embraced an identity-based hierarchy of oppression that left them at the bottom and a #MeToo movement that many felt made them guilty until proven innocent.” She urged the party to “offer a more pluralistic view of the future” to “the young men who have defected in the face of perceived hostility” and “many voters who have rejected an approach to political power-building grounded predominantly in disparate identity.” That conflicts with Hogue’s article four days later in The Bulwark warning of “Trump’s Effort to Kill Off #MeToo.” Hogue even complained that Daily Wire “commentator Matt Walsh lamented that [the #MeToo movement insinuated Supreme Court nominee Brett] Kavanaugh was ‘innocent until proven guilty,’ an appropriate standard for civil and criminal proceedings, but one that falls short when applying for jobs that require public trust.”

Under Hogue’s leadership, NARAL signed a 2021 statement affirming that “transgender girls and women are girls and women. Unfortunately, transgender girls’ and women’s participation in school sports consistent with their gender identity has become a cudgel used to attack” liberal legislation, such as the so-called “Equality Act.” NARAL also signed onto an ACLU statement pressuring the Supreme Court to compel Christian cake artist Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop to make a cake for a same-sex marriage ceremony, although the action would violate his biblical beliefs. (Justices sided with Phillips in that case 7-2; attorneys simply filed a new lawsuit to punish Phillips for refusing to bake a cake celebrating a transgender “transition.”)

“We have to defund the police,” said NARAL just before Hogue left.

Hogue criticized Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) after an October 2015 debate in which the Vermont socialist promised to force employers to give employees 12 weeks of “free” paid family leave, because he said, “When a mother has a baby, she should stay home with that baby.”

“I was like, ‘Stop saying that,’” retorted Hogue, who said Sanders’s statement reflected his “very old mentality.”

“I think that this sort of old model of progressivism, which is very much the white, working-class labor era progressivism, is being [challenged] in a really big way right now,” said Hogue hopefully in 2016. “We have really been trying to explore this link between economic equality, abortion access, and reproductive rights generally. It’s been super fascinating.”

When Hogue teased a run for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2016, she told supporters that “fighting Trump’s agenda has to be top priority for the party.” She underlined her commitment to identity politics, asking Democrats to begin “[r]ecognizing these intersections” and recognizing “diversity is our strength and must be our aspiration and our future.”

In January, Hogue remained in identity politics mode. Hogue attacked President Trump’s executive order on transgenderism “pronouncing that sex is immutable and that there are two of them” as “bad enough at face value.” She claimed Trump planned to “assert radical politics and religion everywhere you can so you can normalize the unthinkable” — namely, that Trump would enact the scientifically incontrovertible “idea that life begins at conception and rights would be applied accordingly.” Hogue’s anti-religious screed and SAM comments came shortly before DNC Chair Ken Martin announced the Democratic Party’s multimillion-dollar outreach to Christian voters and other people of faith.

The Hogue family already has a track record of failure reaching male voters. Her husband organized the “White Dudes for Harris” movement. Ilyse Hogue praised the campaign — which culminated in a much-derided, $10 million ad campaign — as “the inflection point that flipped the script on the politics of modern masculinity.”

If the Democratic Party wants to reach young male voters, religious believers, or the vast majority of Americans turned off by a party whose platform reads like a conversation in the faculty lounge, it should dump Ilyse Hogue and her anti-life, ultra-left ideology at once.

LifeNews Note: Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand. 

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