When you think of a political party that believes men can get pregnant and that Drag Queen Story Hour is about teaching kids to love books, what’s the first word that pops into your mind? I mean, the first word besides “gross” and “depraved” and “abominable.”

Weird, right? The word that comes to mind is weird.

And yet in recent days, “weird” is precisely the word that Democrat politicians and their Leftmedia lickspittles have trotted out to tar Donald Trump’s remarkably non-weird running mate, J.D. Vance.

Talk about projection.

Vance, as everyone knows by now, poses some serious threats to the Democrats. He’s a Millennial, so he attracts the youth vote; he’s from Appalachia, so he appeals to working-class whites; he’s a Marine, so he appeals to patriotic Americans of all stripes; he’s a Yale Law graduate, so he appeals to Ivy Leaguers; he’s worked in Silicon Valley, so he appeals to techies and entrepreneurs; he’s a bestselling author, so he appeals to literary types; he’s a father of three young kids, so he appeals to parents everywhere; his wife is of Indian descent, so he appeals to people of color.

All these factors epitomize the American Dream. They suggest a quintessentially American upbringing akin to those that play out daily in thousands of stories across thousands of American communities — which is why The Party of Weirdos is desperately trying to paint him as “weird.”

As the UK’s Telegraph reports, “Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, said on Sunday that Mr Vance was ‘weird’ and ‘erratic’ and claimed that Trump must be ‘scratching his head and wondering: Why did I pick this guy?’ Memos sent out by the Harris campaign have labelled the Republican ticket ‘weird’ four times in the past week.” And Minnesota Governor and Harris veep short-lister Tim Walz took to MSNBC to call both Trump and Vance “weird.”

Weird, huh?

And childish, too. But that’s the way the Democrats operate. Here’s how this one worked: At some point after Donald Trump tapped him to fill out the Republican ticket, the Democrats convened a focus group of independent voters, and they asked them for their impressions of J.D. Vance. And the descriptors that kept coming up were words like “normal” and “relatable” and “regular.” And so, the Democrats set to work on chipping away at this normalcy, this relatability. Weird is the opposite of normal, so that’s what they’ve fixated on. Can there be any other explanation for the viral outbreak of this single word being used to describe Vance?

Of course, there’s another reason why the Democrats feel the need to tar the kettle of J.D. Vance: They fear the blackness of their own pot. As columnist Ben Shapiro observes, “The reason Democrats are targeting Vance as weird is that they don’t want Republicans painting Kamala Harris as weird. This is a dog that is not going to hunt particularly well, even though the media is parroting the charge against Vance in unison.”

Put more directly: Who’s weirder, the Midwestern boy who served in the Marines and went to Yale, or the Bay Area progressive of Jamaican and Indian descent who was raised in Canada and whose dad was a Marxist and whose own votes marked her as the furthest left of all 100 U.S. senators in 2019, the same year she first ran for president? And we haven’t even gotten to Harris’s most glaring interpersonal shortcomings: her abject inability to keep staff from quitting, her fondness for unburdening herself by mindlessly repeating the same pseudo-philosophical phrase over and over again, and her odd habit of cackling at inopportune times.

Is it weirder to reach out to the American people as Americans or as members of particular racial groups? Perhaps we should ask the Harris campaign, whose plan is to exploit identity politics by any means necessary. As Politico reports, “The vice president’s campaign drew more than 150,000 participants Monday to a ‘White Dudes for Harris’ Zoom call that included Jeff Bridges, who referenced his signature line from ‘The Big Lebowski’ to endorse her presidential candidacy.” But just imagine the outcry if the GOP held a “White Dudes for Trump” campaign event.

As one critic quipped, it was “the most beta gathering in history.”

The more we think about Harris and her candidacy, the weirder it becomes.

Kamala Harris has repeated the same phrase over and over and over and over againpic.twitter.com/3XKC7hKvLD

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 23, 2023

Weird? We’ll let you be the judge.

Updated with a link to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s “weird” attack on Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.