A Natioinal Review piece points to the Trump 2.0 election Democratic losses with young men due to ‘Macho’…..
The piece thinks that won’t last….
Democrats are scrambling to figure out why Gen Z men voted overwhelmingly for President Trump in 2024, breaking the party’s nearly four-decade win streak with young men.
Party strategists are pouring $20 million in the Speaking with American Men (SAM) project to explore how they can reach male voters. Meanwhile, the Democratic National Committee is producing a “postelection review,” groups such as the Progress Action Fund have created plans to target young men, and progressive media figures are buzzing about the need for a left-wing podcast sphere able to compete with Joe Rogan and his comedian friends.
As Democratic consultants, progressive activists, and media figures grasp about for a strategy to reach alienated voters decades their junior, National Review spoke with the campus activists who interact every day with the illusive young American male.
For some of those campus leaders, it’s not what Democrats have done wrong to lose the young male vote, but what amoral, cynical Republicans have done right.
The GOP has “encouraged young men to punch down, and blame their lot [in] life on immigrants, LGBTQ individuals and the women who seem to be outpacing them,” College Democrats of America president Sunjay Muralitharan said.
Muralitharan predicts the GOP’s gains will be short-lived.
“Such a message caused a temporary electoral shift, one that will inevitably flip when disillusioned young men realize which party actually improves their lot in life.”
While the trend Muralitharan describes was made visible with Trump’s election in 2024, it’s not new: American men have been shifting to the right for about ten years. The shift isn’t confined to the U.S. either: Youngvoters in Europe have also become more conservative. To further complicate Muralitharan’s “punching down” theory, the drop in Democratic Party support among Black and Latino men and working class men has been especially pronounced….
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Democrats are now viewed as the party that polices speech and behavior, while Republicans are seen as more approachable. Republican men are nearly twice as likely as Democratic men to see themselves as “highly masculine.” Moreover, Democrats are twice as likely as Republicans to say people in the U.S. place too much value on men who are confident, assertive, risk-taking, or physically strong….
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College Republicans, Marshburn said, “did a lot of solid work to win young men for Trump like creating a fraternity council that we plugged into the Trump campaign and developed programming targeted toward men like tailgates.”…
Note….
The part missing in the above?
Kamala Harris IS a Woman of Color that ran for President against a White Male…
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