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Failed candidate Derrick Van Orden is once again earning the wrong kind of headlines for his continued misogyny, backwards views about women’s role in the workforce, and bragging about sexually harassing women in the military.
From bragging about sexual harassment, to making antisemitic statements, to attending the Jan 6th insurrection using leftover failed campaign funds, Van Orden remains consistent at one thing — showing Wisconsin voters and the nation that he is unfit to serve in Congress. Despite Van Orden’s disqualifying behavior, he still enjoys the backing of GOP leaders Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise and Elise Stefanik.
Check out some of the lowlights from Van Orden’s disturbing record of misogynistic views:
HuffPost: GOP Candidate Once Bragged About Showing A Man’s ‘Ball Sack’ To Unsuspecting Women
By Amanda Terkel
Bragging about sexual harassment
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In 2015, Van Orden published “Book of Man: A Navy Seal’s Guide to the Lost Art of Manhood,” about the lessons he learned from being a Navy SEAL. In the book, as the La Crosse Tribune reported in 2020, Van Orden describes an incident where he surprised two unsuspecting women by showing them a lieutenant’s swollen genitals
Van Orden writes:
After walking them over to the outside of the lieutenant’s location, I whipped the curtain back. “Have you ever seen anything like this?” I asked. They gasped in horror as they saw the LT in all of his glory. I’m sure they never wanted to have anything do with a man ever again.
Arguing to exclude women from military service because it would be a bad “business decision”
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Van Orden has also criticized the 2016 decision to allow women to become Navy SEALs, saying it was a “political decision” but not a good “business decision” in a recent interview.
“The ability to get enough women through training isn’t really ― it’s not worth the end.”
Blaming societal ills on women working outside the home
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“Van Orden has been outspoken about the role of traditional family structures, expressing admiration for “aboriginal cultures” because women would stay home and focus on child-rearing for the first six years of a child’s life. In a September 2020 interview, he drew a connection between the murder rate in “advanced cultures” and women having jobs.”
“If you look at the murder rate, the theft rate, all these things that we track as metrics in our society, in our advanced cultures ― we are more inclined to violence being in our advanced cultures than we look at these aboriginal cultures,” he said. “And I think it’s because when you do have the ability to have a mom that’s at home, that’s taking care of ― and we’ve got to remember, only females are capable of growing a child and giving birth.”
“When you grow that bond with a child to the mother and allow the father to do more external things, providing for that mother so that she doesn’t have to go to work outside of the village or outside of the home, it allowed that bond to grow between the mother and the child, which really humanizes the child more,” he added. “And then the child can look towards the father that’s doing a more traditional provision of sustenance.”
Lying about illegally using campaign funds to attend the January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol
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Earlier this year, Van Orden used leftover campaign funds from his 2020 run to travel to Washington, D.C., for Donald Trump’s “stop the steal” rally. Van Orden claimed that he never set foot on the U.S. Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, but a photo from that day shows otherwise.
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