September 12, 2026

New Normal For Democrats: Ashley Madison And Masculinity Struggle Sessions

By Derek VanBuskirk (DCNF) - All News Pipeline

The Democratic Party has touted Kentucky House candidate Zach Dembo as a model of “normalcy,” yet his own comments reveal bizarre ideas about masculinity, and his email was also connected to an account on the adultery website Ashley Madison.

In an August post, The Washington Sun pointed to Dembo as one of the only “normal” Democrat candidates, suggesting that other party members could use a similar strategy to ensure electoral victories of their own. 

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Citing party operatives, the Sun said that the “average Democrat is so abysmally low in the minds of most voters” that “it’s relatively easy to surpass their expectations with merely competent candidates.”

While Democrat-aligned candidates for the 2026 midterms have been accused of rape, have a daughter who was allegedly a cam girl on pornographic sites, or have used their positions as clergy to push leftist agendas, the Sun said Democrats should take a page from Dembo’s book and just be normal.

“If we have a political strategy of coming across as normal, we might have bigger problems,” Dembo told the Sun, adding that being normal is just something you either have or you don’t.

“Hopefully, you’re just a normal dude and don’t have to use it as a political ploy,” he said.

Yet clips from a late 2024 interview with The Good Guy Guide show Dembo comparing being woke to the masculine idea of being a protector, saying both can appear more performative than helpful.

When discussing the Good Guy Complex, defined by the host as a man’s drive to “do things because you feel it’s the right thing for society to do,” Dembo described the masculine urge to protect others as something that can become counterproductive, saying it is “basically using the same masculine idea of being the protector, but now, I’m going to protect women in the sense that I’m stopping these bad things from happening to them.”

Instead, Dembo said that he had to stop these urges to help and learn to “just listen a lot more.”

He continued, saying that “the biggest issue that we’re still dealing with” when it comes to problems in leadership, intimate partner violence, and sexual assaults is the “expectation of what it means to be masculine,” suggesting that when someone falls short of those expectations, they tend to overcompensate aggressively.

“And so they use whatever they associate with masculine, which sometimes is violent strength, you know, assertion, something like that — to try to overcome it,” Dembo said, before admitting that this is something he’s had to struggle with himself.

To illustrate that struggle with not corresponding to “what’s traditionally considered masculine,” Dembo recounted an anecdote from his own life, sharing that he had been fascinated with butterflies growing up.

He said he had not only collected butterflies but had also worn butterfly T-shirts given to him by his parents to school, which he now acknowledges were “more associated with girls.”

Dembo also said that it had “led to some issues at school” and that it was something that he had to work through.

“I think that obviously led to like a lot of confusion about what it meant to be a boy and a man,” Dembo said. “But I think that’s kind of the struggle that we deal with, that I was thinking of, when you’re talking about the expectation: you’re the man, you’re the leader, like this is how you’ve got to be.”

The Daily Caller previously reported that an email shared on the Kentucky Bar Association website as belonging to Dembo was found on a tool that searches the emails used to create accounts on the infamous adultery hookup website Ashley Madison.

At the time, a campaign spokesperson denied that Dembo had ever used the site, adding that “If someone created an account with his email, he was completely unaware.”

The Dembo campaign has not responded to the Daily Caller’s additional request for comment.

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