Vice President JD Vance has a powerful message for young men: embrace your masculinity and don’t let the anti-male narrative change your outlook on life.
Vance made the remarks while speaking with Mercedes Schlapp on stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on February 20.
“You ask me — my message to young men is — I think that our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge,” he said. “You should try to cast aside your family, you should try to suppress what makes you a young man in the first place. 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.”
“The cultural message, and I think the president’s and mine is the exact opposite, but our cultural message — 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’re going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do that.”
JD VANCE: Our culture wants to turn everybody into androgynous idiots. pic.twitter.com/MiHRFHuAZf
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Vance also took time during that speech to send a message to young people in general — promising that the Trump administration would be focused on improving their lives and giving them the opportunity to work and raise their families.
“My message to young people generally is we’re trying to make your life better, and that is the simple thrust of President Trump’s policy,” the vice president said. “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, and we want you to be able to build a nice life in this country that all of us love.”
He went on to highlight the fact that Americans under the age of 30 are going to be the ones that experience the greatest impact from policies implemented in the coming years, whether the policies are good or bad. Vance also noted that, unless Republicans win in the 2026 midterms, it will be very difficult for the Trump administration to continue implementing his America First policies.
“I want you guys to think about the future and ask yourself, ‘Do you want safe communities?’ ‘Do you want a prosperous life?’ ‘Do you want to be able to work a good job, or do you want that job shipped off to China or somewhere else?’ We’re fighting for you every single day,” he added.
.@VP gives his message to young people: "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 according to the values you believe in, and we want you to be able to build a nice life in this country." pic.twitter.com/di1lf2UNES
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