Democrats Close Campaign With Porn (“Hands Off My Porn” Campaign), by Megan Basham

By Megan Basham, First Things, Nov. 4, 2024

Megan Basham is a culture reporter for the Daily Wire.

In the final days of the 2024 election, the Democrats have at last hit on a pitch they believe will make inroads with young men: Vote for us, the party of porn. 

When ads tying Dems to smut first rolled out on October 7, they still seemed like a niche play by the party’s fringe. A coalition of porn actors with names like Ana Foxxx, Liv Revamped, and Sinn Sage pooled a measly $100,000 for a campaign billed as “Hands Off My Porn,” to run on porn sites in swing states. The ads claim that because Project 2025, a book of policy recommendations spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, argues that porn is a societal scourge that should be outlawed, a second Trump administration would surely ban it. Never mind that Trump has never thrown his considerable political weight behind even those porn limitations that Americans overwhelmingly support, like online age verification. Never mind that his campaign has expressly disavowed Project 2025. The ads insist that the man who once frequented the Playboy mansion and makes jokes about Arnold Palmer’s anatomy would discover his inner Puritan once back in the White House. …

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