By Emma Foley, Commentary | The Conservateur
In the home stretch of the 2024 race, Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, has been accused of abusing a former lover. His alleged problematic past undermines the media narrative that Emhoff is the torchbearer of a reformed masculinity. It also exposes Harris’s fraudulence as a supposed champion of women.
Emhoff’s biggest flaw is that he shamelessly adores his wife, if you ask those who get their news from Saturday Night Live. Actors Andy Samberg and Maya Rudolph did a skit portraying the two in puppy love. The media consensus? Doug’s a “wife guy.” He can’t help being his goofy-Gen X-husband-self. Goals!
The feminists go further, saying Emhoff is a “progressive sex symbol.” Emhoff served as a stay-at-home-husband throughout Harris’s term as vice president. He has been praised for relegating himself to be her sidekick, a pair of jeans next to her pantsuit.