Steve Deace: The TRUTH about why men have become so passive



Men have always found reasons to avoid difficult fights — but today this has gotten worse, and it’s not exactly their fault.

The biggest problem with men these days, Todd Erzen of the “Steve Deace Show” explains, is that “they keep finding reasons not to fight in a culture where there are fights everywhere.”

“You’re not supposed to just randomly do it because it’s your style, your thing. You’re supposed to do it because the Lord identifies good and evil, and you are a servant of the good,” he continues.

“You must, as a man, vanquish evil,” he adds.


However, BlazeTV host Steve Deace points out that even in Genesis 3, “There’s not a whole bunch of guys preemptively looking to take on evil.”

“The opposite is often true. We wait until we’re cornered. We wait until we’ve suffered enough,” he explains.

“So that’s not new. That’s not unique,” he adds.

And even the founding fathers were not prepared to attack the “first time their God-given rights were violated.”

“They spent 10 years thinking about it, talking about it, negotiating it. Then when the redcoats start putting armed soldiers in their homes and calling it the ‘Quartering Act,’ they’re like, ‘You know, guys, we might be at a point of no return here,’” Deace says.

“I promise you, we’re not the first generation of men late to the party. That’s been every generation of men. Every single one,” he continues.

“We’re sinners,” he adds.

What is new, however, Deace explains, are the phones that never leave our hands.

“It’s these phones. We have never had at our instant disposal more opportunities to dissuade us from our priorities than the current technology of this world provides,” he says, adding, “Now that is what is new.”

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Steve Deace: Is Mitch McConnell actually in the hospital, or is it ‘Soviet-level propaganda'?



After a month of silence, Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office shared a statement alongside a proof of life photograph of McConnell sitting in what appears to be a hospital bed alongside his wife while holding this Sunday’s Washington Post newspaper.

McConnell shared that he had fallen and had to deal with a “mild case of pneumonia.”

“My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion,” the statement read. “I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages. But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital.”

BlazeTV host Steve Deace isn’t totally buying McConnell’s story, calling the photo “fascinating.”


“I mean, you typically, when you see people in the hospital admitted for long periods of time, are they typically cord-free or there’s no IVs?” he asks, pointing out that McConnell is free of any IVs, cords, and he’s dressed normally.

“When I look at this, I don’t see anything. I don’t see any evidence of an IV. I don’t see any machines,” he says.

“This to me was like Soviet-level propaganda here, right? And you make sure to throw the wife in there with all the rumors that she had run off to China or something,” he adds.

“And his best friend in the Senate was Lindsey Graham,” co-host Todd Erzen chimes in.

“And he said nothing about Lindsey Graham too, because this came out hours after it was already out that Lindsey Graham had passed away,” executive producer Aaron McIntire adds.

“To me, the best thing that you can say is that he’s seriously hurt, which is unfortunate again for him and his family. He’s seriously hurt, and they staged this in the hospital to make it look like he was due back and didn’t consider any of the details of the kinds of things we’re asking about,” Deace says.

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‘The natural order’: Why Christian conservatives are turning AGAINST Big Pharma and Big Ag



Zach Lahn’s upset victory in Iowa's GOP gubernatorial primary has BlazeTV host Steve Deace asking whether or not the MAHA movement is becoming the foundation of a new conservative coalition.

“Iowa has the fastest-growing cancer rate in the world. We all know something is terribly wrong. But too many politicians from Washington, D.C., to Des Moines have had their heads stuck in the sand while Big Ag and Big Pharma printed money,” Lahn said in a campaign speech.

“Zach also ran on a really based immigration message — some of the most aggressive immigration messaging I’ve ever seen on Iowa airwaves,” Deace comments.

“The messaging that he combined there essentially mobilized evangelicals or Christian conservatives — in Iowa, most of those would be evangelicals — with the MAHA language that you saw … in his speech,” he continues. “So is this an omen or an outlier? Is this the grassroots coalition of the future?”


“I obviously hope so,” co-host Todd Erzen says.

Author Jon Harris points out that he sees this attitude everywhere now, especially in his own home.

“I think on the grassroots level, this is happening quite a bit. So my own wife has basically gotten all the plastic out of our kitchen. My brother was the first one to do a home birth in the family — it was actually during 2020 — and didn’t want to do any vaccines,” he explains.

“I thought that was kind of crazy at the time — that that didn’t make a lot of sense. What if there’s a complication? Don’t you need a hospital nearby?” Harris recalls.

“Well, my daughter was born, and we did the same thing that he did, and we’re very happy with it. And I never thought I’d be in a doula’s office with a bunch of hippies talking about how to bring a baby into the world. I thought that was the doctor’s job,” he says.

Harris believes the reason for this is that there are “a lot of Christians are also more connected to the natural order of things.”

“And fundamentally, MAHA, I think, is a conservative move in a way, because what they’re saying is we don’t trust the government to regulate these things. We need to have personal responsibility over our lives. And the reason is because God created this world,” he explains.

“There’s a design that we’re supposed to function by. And so if we go back to the ways our bodies should function and the nutrients that they actually need, then I think that’s a conservative move — that’s a Christian move on a fundamental level,” he continues. And at least it’s an on-ramp to those things.”

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Has the rainbow craze peaked? New poll suggests Americans are rejecting homosexuality



For years, Americans were told the country was moving in only one direction on LGBTQ issues. But a new Gallup poll suggests that trend may be slowing — and in some cases reversing.

Support for same-sex marriage has fallen from its recent high-water mark, while fewer Americans now view gender transitions as morally acceptable than they did just a few years ago. And while Democrats remain the most supportive of LGBTQ issues, Republicans and independents have dropped in their support.

“How do you attribute this decline? What do you think it means?” BlazeTV host Steve Deace asks author Jon Harris.

“I think that the left pushed very hard, and it hurt people,” Harris answers. “And it seems like the right doesn’t get engaged until they’re hurting in some way. If it’s theoretical, let the left have what the left wants. It’s not going to affect my marriage.”


“Unfortunately, it did affect people because three seconds after they pushed for gay marriage, they wanted men in women’s sports, and they wanted to trans your kids. And so I think there was a backlash against it for that reason,” he adds.

Harris believes that if things “continue in the MAHA direction,” that “actually spells doom for the LGBT movement.”

“The whole logic of it is we need to get back to some kind of a created order, some kind of a way that we’re meant to function. And as soon as you start asking those questions, you’re going to start realizing, well, actually, men were made for women, women were made for men,” he explains.

“While I agree theoretically with MAHA is doing things that should light up the broader citizenry and maybe even the church, but the problem is that the church has got to be first and foremost,” co-host Todd Erzen chimes in.

While Erzen believes morality should be why Americans reject homosexuality, Harris points out that it seems like the rejection is coming from an evolutionary perspective.

“If that’s the message, if it’s, ‘We don’t want homosexual marriage because, well, that doesn't conform with science,’ then it’s not about being rooted in the Creator’s design for us in God,” Harris says.

“Unnatural as opposed to immoral,” Deace adds.

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Viral ‘Gays of Hormuz’ interview leaves Steve Deace speechless



A bizarre man-on-the-street interview is making waves online after comedian Lionel Leede asked a protester whether America was neglecting the “gays of Hormuz” in a fake German accent — a play on words on the Strait of Hormuz — and received earnest agreement in response.

“Isn’t it a little bit homophobic that we’re so focused on the straights of Hormuz and not the gays of Hormuz?” Leede asked the No Kings protester.

“Yes, I agree. Yes, for sure,” the protester responded.

“Why do you think they’re willing to leave the gays of Hormuz behind?” Leede asked.


“I think it’s just, historically, like, you know, gays have always been very discriminated against, which is wrong on so many levels,” she responded before he interjected, “Even in war.”

“Yeah, even in war. It just takes more reform in government, obviously, and then also educating society,” she added.

“Just feel like if we’re going to go in there, we can’t leave the gay people behind. I don’t think we should go in there at all, but if we’re going to, the gays of Hormuz, we could turn it into Fire Island,” Leede responded, to which she said, “For sure.”

BlazeTV host Steve Deace watches the clip on the “Steve Deace Show” and, without speaking a word, gets up and leaves the set.

Co-host Todd Erzen laughs, saying, “And in a German accent.”

“And they’re going to win the next election,” he adds, laughing harder.

Deace walks back in, joking that when he heard Todd say, “They’re going to win the next election,” he “sat down over in the corner there in the break room and just started sucking my thumb.”

“I don’t even know what to say,” he adds.

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Are Republicans COOKED in the midterms? 4 Blaze Media voices respond.



Despite the left’s stubborn defense of violence, lawlessness, radical ideologies, and the hollowing out of traditional institutions, Republicans are still projected to get obliterated in this year’s midterm elections.

But it’s not just forecasts pointing to grim midterm results. Blue is already encroaching on red districts.

“We just lost Donald Trump’s home state legislative district. ... That’s zapping some of my enjoyment, if not pretty much all,” BlazeTV host Steve Deace says.

On this episode of the “Steve Deace Show,” Deace and his co-hosts Aaron McIntire and Todd Erzen sit down with Blaze News managing editor Rob Eno to discuss these bleak midterm prospects and whether any hope remains for the conservative base.

“I know it’s still seven-plus months until the midterms here, all right, but let’s just go ahead and ask the question that a lot of people are asking: Are we cooked?” Deace asks the panel.

Erzen’s response is a balance of pessimism and hope. “I guess I’ll say no,” he tells Deace.

“The left is so evil and so decadent and so dumb. Improvement has to happen, Steve, in the time frame you’re talking about, but it’s not going to take perhaps as much as we think it will circumstantially. That being said, we might be [cooked],” he explains.

McIntire is less optimistic. “As of this moment, yes,” he says bluntly.

“I just think there are too many warning signs right now and too many signs that there is no even action or intention to action within much of Congress to deliver on President Trump’s what we were told was a mandate,” he adds, arguing that “[the party] is not delivering on that mandate.”

Eno believes Republicans aren’t only cooked in midterm elections — they’re cooked in general.

“We’re going to lose the Senate and the House,” he predicts.

The list of losses for the Trump administration keeps growing, he argues, citing the ongoing war with Iran, skyrocketing gas prices, fertilizer shortages driving up food prices, and poor polling in key Senate races.

“I do not see how we get out of this, and I don’t think seven months is a long period of time. ... Unless the economy turns around, I don’t think we win,” Eno says frankly.

Erzen, however, offers a bit more optimism.

Even if the economy “doesn’t turn around” or “even gets a little worse,” he believes “two political miracles” — such as a “major arrest” of an elite tied to Epstein or passing the SAVE Act — could still change the odds in Republicans’ favor.

“People are so off-balance right now as voters. I don’t know what they think they prioritize on any given day,” he says.

But Eno pushes back on the SAVE Act’s potential impact.

“If you’ve lied to the voters, the SAVE Act saving anything has the hubris of imagining that the American people that are citizens are going to vote for this bunch of clowns, and they’re not with what they see,” he says, alluding to the widespread frustration over the administration’s broken promises on the economy, mass deportations, and avoiding new wars.

Deace largely agrees with Eno that Republicans are “cooked” in the midterms if little changes.

“I could list off a handful of things they could do that are all somewhat relatively achievable. ... But as we’re sitting here on March 27, if I listed those things off and asked you guys how many of those things you think they’re going to do, you might say one if we’re lucky — and so that’s where the ‘we’re cooked’ sits in,” he says.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.

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The demographic CLIFF: The fertility CRISIS no one is ready for



America is approaching a civilizational breaking point as young men abandon the left to move right, while young women drift further left. This has left a massive gap that’s not only threatening the future of marriage and family formation, but even basic population replacement.

“This has come to a head to some degree. Now, I will say this, if you are a conservative young woman entering into marriage years, it is a good time to be you. ... The market is very much in your favor,” BlazeTV host Steve Deace explains at AmFest.

“Countrywide, you’re unicorns,” he says, noting that despite their existence, “all these things eventually have to come to a head somewhere.”


“Someone is going to have to change, right?” he asks.

BlazeTV contributor Todd Erzen believes that there will need to be "incentivizations.”

“I just don’t think the mere biological cliff we are falling off, that realization is enough because that’s baked into the cake. That was the point all along. That is the dark success story of all of this,” Erzen says.

“I think there may ultimately need to be incentivizations that are kind of like a steroid that wake enough of the culture up to keep things going,” he continues.

However, “Steve Deace Show” executive producer Aaron McIntire disagrees.

“The bad news is, you look at countries like Japan, South Korea, they have faced the same sorts of demographic cliffs that we’re about to maybe go over. They have done all of these technocratic policies, you know, trying to actually animate, trying to just get people in the frame of mind of, ‘Hey, this is going to have a tax benefit for you. This is going to have some economic benefit for you if you have more children,’” McIntire says.

“They’re trying to encourage this, and it really hasn’t had much of a difference,” he says, adding, “So, I don’t think there’s any sort of technocratic solution that you can put in place.”

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Digital NECROMANCY? This new AI tech crossed a spiritual line.



AI company 2wai may have taken its latest commercial a bit too far — as it presents the idea that your loved ones could live forever, as AI avatars, of course.

In the commercial, a pregnant mother speaks to her passed loved one via the phone app, showing the avatar her stomach.

“Oh, honey, that’s wonderful,” the AI responds. “He’s listening. Put your hand on your tummy and hum to him. You used to love that.”

The deceased avatar is 2wai’s core product, a HoloAvatar — which is an AI rendition of a real person, brought to life by a large language model.


“The question on the table, based on what you just saw: ‘Is this idolatry or not?’” BlazeTV host Steve Deace asks BlazeTV contributor Todd Erzen on the “Steve Deace Show.”

“To quote Gandalf, ‘Run, you fools,’” Erzen responds. “This is grotesque idolatry. This is emotional pornography of the highest order.”

“I lost my mother three months before I got married. She never got to meet my four daughters. She was the finest human being I ever met. She was truly good. I would never dishonor her memory with this. I’m utterly disgusted by the perpetual childish neediness of grown-ups who would bow at this altar,” he continues.

“It is profoundly wicked and evil to normalize this in any way, shape, or form. May God have mercy on our souls, quite frankly,” he adds.

“Steve Deace Show” executive producer Aaron McIntire is on the same page as Erzen, telling Deace the product should be burned “with fire.”

“It’s possible that this might not be idolatry if we were all robots, but we’re not robots. Something like this is just not fit for human nature,” he adds.

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Birth rate data reveals left faces doom while conservative families sustain population



Data compiled by the Financial Times reveals birth rates among progressives and conservatives over the past nearly 50 years — and it’s not looking good for the left.

Conservative birth rates have fallen, but conservatives are still reproducing at replacement rates, while progressives are barely reproducing at all.

“What we need is … a turning point, if you will, where we are not just going the same rate of speed as the doctrines of demons, but we are going in the opposite direction,” BlazeTV host Steve Deace says on the “Steve Deace Show.”

“And I think the enemy feared that leaders like Charlie were putting us on such a trend line, especially with their effectiveness towards the youth, and that’s why ‘they’ — demons like to call themselves that — that’s why they murdered him,” he continues.

“And now our hope is that like we’ve seen in the past with martyrs, strike one down and an entire movement comes up behind them,” he adds.


While the left, Deace says, has jumped on the “highway to hell and it’s ‘YOLO,’” conservatives are simply in the slow lane, still heading down the same road.

“We’re traveling the exact same direction. That has to stop. And I think in the younger generations, they sense that. The younger generations on our side. … The hope is we can last long enough to hand it off to them to prove it to us one way or the other,” he tells producer Todd Erzen.

“I mean, if you will not have babies and consecrate them to the Lord, we’re just not serious about the faith we claim to have. This is my lament about the people on the cul de sac and you really just can’t tell in any way a difference between, quite frankly, the families that are happy with the grooming going on and those who claim to believe otherwise,” Erzen says.

“You see all the time: Christian families talk about how expensive kids are. Well, all these families, if you’re paying attention, they’re going on vacation. They have their hobbies. They’re certainly not working, you know, three jobs, man. It’s a choice,” he continues.

“Our excuse-making factories for why our comfort as Christians is going to come before having children and having that be our primary legacy. Giving to the Lord human beings who will worship Him and carry the next generation forward in His name. I mean, it’s a choice,” he adds, “but good luck with that.”

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Vaccine scam unravels as COVID shot ends for kids



Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has boldly removed the COVID vaccine from the CDC’s schedule for children and pregnant women — but it doesn’t negate the damage that’s already been done.

“This goes way beyond just those categories of human beings, because the scam all along is that the only way you can mandate this or any vaccine is if all major categories of human being are covered by said vaccine,” Todd Erzen, editor of the “Steve Deace Show,” tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson on “Blaze News | The Mandate.”

“So, the fact that they are taking this off the schedule for pregnant women and children means this can’t be mandated by law for anybody,” he continues. “You should get angry because we knew all along that kids were threatened less from COVID than they were from the seasonal flu.”


“We had to make the kids take something that we knew was dangerous to them so Big Pharma could make money,” he says. “So, you guys need to view this way beyond health, what happened here.”

Erzen, whose wife and children are not vaccinated at all, has known for a long time that the shots were unnecessary.

“We’ve been kind of a horse of a different color for a long time about this stuff,” Erzen tells Savage and Peterson, noting that his children are high-achieving and healthy, despite what others might want the public to believe. “People in my world never thought this day might come where there would be enough critical mass to push back like this.”

“So, we’re absolutely going to take this win. Hopefully everybody hits the pause button within the MAHA movement and kind of realizes that this was not all for naught. We just needed to give these guys a little time to get appointed and to do the cooking in the kitchen,” he continues.

“But now, it’s going to be on to other big things. This is not a group that’s going to be satisfied — they plan on accomplishing very big things,” he adds.

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