Even when he’s a bad husband, Doug Emhoff is good

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. And it’s not newly announced Harris running-mate and Minnesota governor Tim Walz, who appropriately ditched the “when they go low we go high” doomed mantra of 2016 and rightfully labeled the MAGA GOP weird AF. “So, again, it’s, ‘How can I be helpful to her, make her day easier, take things off her plate around the house so she can fulfill these intense duties that she has?’” While what Emhoff is describing is the bare minimum of what any supportive partner should do, it is also depressingly rare in a society still shaped by sexism and outdated gender roles. He doesn’t consider childless women to be “sad, lonely, and pathetic,” but instead correctly labels such sexist nonsense as “stupid” and “uninformed.” He doesn’t believe that his wife or women like her should “feel like her life is inadequate,” like Vance believes, or that a politician like his wife should “go to war against” childless people, like Vance has promised Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will. “When someone like that deigns to come on the national stage and run for one of the highest offices in the land, it’s such a clown,” Emhoff responded.