Aging & Wisdom Quote by Evan Sayet

The line isn’t trying to clarify anyone’s theology; it’s trying to weaponize a stereotype with the snap of a punchline. Evan Sayet takes the 2012-era swirl around Mitt Romney’s Mormon identity and pivots it into a crude phonetic gag: “Brigham Young” becomes “Bring ’em young,” reframing a religious reference as an insinuation about predatory sexual appetite. The joke depends on the audience already holding (or being willing to entertain) a suspicion that powerful men are sexual hypocrites, then inviting them to project that suspicion onto two familiar Democrats, John Edwards and Bill Clinton.

Intent-wise, it’s partisan triangulation dressed as wordplay. Romney is positioned as the “true” Mormon, not because he passes some ecclesiastical test, but because the joke needs a straight-man: a sober, legitimate religious identity to contrast with Edwards/Clinton as counterfeit. The “not real Mormons” line is deliberately absurd, a mock definition that turns “Mormon” from a faith into a category for male sexual behavior. That’s the subtext: the culture war habit of treating religious labels as moral shorthand, then yanking the shorthand into the gutter for laughs.

Context matters because the targets are not random. Edwards and Clinton were, by then, shorthand for scandal, infidelity, and media spectacle. The chant misdirection borrows the energy of political rallies, implying a crowd’s enthusiasm is less ideological than libidinal. It’s not subtle; it’s designed to feel transgressive while offering the comfort of a familiar villain lineup. The laugh is meant to land as a wink: you’re not just hearing a pun, you’re joining a tribe that “knows what’s really going on.”