The Candidate Some Call “Tala-freako” Tries Transitioning to Sanity

James Talarico, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from Texas, is a new man. Gone, in fact, is the James Talarico of only three weeks ago.

Just consider his 2021 claim that there are “six” “biological sexes.” He now says, “I know there are two sexes, men and women.” My, someone tell Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

He also has an explanation for asserting that “God is nonbinary.” He was just being “intentionally provocative,” he says. Well, pro tip: Provocations can outlive primaries.

Then there’s his statement about his 2022 Texas House reelection effort. “I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign,” he said at the time. “We are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses.” His Senate run, though, is different. “This campaign basically runs on Texas barbecue,” he recently stated. Apparently, higher office is worth killing animals and worsening climate change for.

Talarico further averred, in 2020, that white people are “immune” to the “virus of racism,” but “spread” it wherever they go. Now he says that he should have phrased it differently. He was really, you see, just referencing our “responsibility to combat racism.” But “I still believe that racism is wrong,” he adds. Racism is wrong?! Well, don’t say he won’t fall on his sword for principle.

Of course, what accounts for these epiphanies are situational values. The Democratic primaries were one situation. The general election is another.

Talarico, though, still has much to repudiate. He has, after all, called women “neighbors with uteruses” and Jesus “a radical feminist.” He has claimed that the Bible supports abortion rights. He has in addition defended having men masquerading as female in women’s sports. In fact, his views have been so bizarre that some critics have dubbed him “Tala-freako.”

The Two (or More?) Talaricos

Now, despite the above, Talarico is leading his GOP opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, by 0.8 points in the RealClearPolitics polling average. Yes, polls are often skewed in favor of Democrats, and it’s still early. Many voters may not yet be acquainted with Talarico’s uber-woke pronouncements. Moreover, Texans haven’t elected a Democrat to statewide office since 1994.

On the other hand, being good-looking and articulate, and having charisma, Talarico benefits from the Luciferian beauty factor. (This is more significant than many suppose.)

He certainly plays the role, too, of “the boy next door.” And one can say “role” because there’s something we can call political kayfabe. “Kayfabe” is a professional wrestling term referencing the persona a wrestler adopts as part of his act. He may be a “babyface”: a good guy, a hero, for whom everyone cheers. He may be a “heel”: a bad guy, a villain, the foil to the face. Democrat Graham Platner, running for the Senate from Maine, plays a face (and his supporters buy it). Soon to be ex-congressman Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) played a sort of heel. (She was a heroine to her “heelish” boosters. This is in contrast to her real personality, where she sounds as if she’d been to finishing school.)

Talarico, of course, is babyface all the way. But what is his real persona — and what are his real positions? Is he just all about power?

How he would vote in office is not the issue. As a rule, politicians vote with their party the vast majority of the time. This is why in general elections, you vote for the party, not the person. (Because a vote for the person is a vote for his party). As for a person, however, what can be said about someone who’d even feign Talarico’s past positions?

Talarico’s Time Changes

ZeroHedge’s Tyler Durden has his answer. Saying Talarico is typical of today’s wokester Democrats, he calls him part of a “cavalcade of [leftist] circus freaks.” Oh, the candidate superficially seems normal, being “a former middle school teacher and Presbyterian seminarian…,” Durden relates. Talarico also, however, “has ties to an NGO called Leadership for Educational Equity (LEE), which coaches potential civic leaders in far-left ideology,” the writer continues.

It shows in Talarico’s purported Christianity, too. Just consider “clergyman” Jim Rigby, whom the Democrat calls “my pastor in every sense of the word.” He asserts that “calling God ‘him’ is violent, St. Paul is a ‘creep,’ and Mary’s a myth,” reports The Western Journal. As for St. Paul, Rigby (and presumably Talarico) apparently believes he was just a poor benighted “man of his time.”

Talarico, though, is different: He’s a man of many times. Below he can be seen, in 2021, speaking in defense of men in women’s sports.

The same year he came out against voter ID (video below), which 80 percent of Americans support.

In 2022, he called women “neighbors with a uterus” (below).

Also in 2022, he said that his campaign would be a “non-meat campaign” because that’s the “moral thing to do” (below).

In 2019, he claimed that the “American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us” (below).

And just this May, he asserted that the “Bible is silent on abortion” (below).

Yet while killing babies may, apparently, sometimes be necessary, there is something Talarico believes is “violence”: prison. He said as much below, too, in 2022.

But now the times are different — and so is Talarico. Yet who is he, really? Well, that’s easy: He’s a guy who’ll say anything to be Texas’ next senator.