Why are younger men so right wing?

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Anonymous wrote:If you can’t see the hostility to young men, particularly straight white men, in the modern Left’s messaging you are willfully blind.

The entire identity/diversity movement is based on excluding straight white men.

What does BIPOC mean? It means “not white.”

What does it mean if an organization lacks diversity? It means too many men and/or too many white people. It never means too few men or white people.

If you are a young man who hasn’t found a place in the world you feel targeted, and you aren’t wrong.

This article is one perspective on the phenomenon: https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/

If the Democrats want to turn things around they need to understand that a young man coming of age in 2025 (particularly white men) finds himself in the minority, often a small minority, in universities, corporate America, the media, and every other path towards a stable upper middle class existence.

The Ivy League today is only roughly one third white and a bit over 50% female… leaving white males at roughly 15% of undergrads. Meanwhile they continue to be told that they are somehow responsible for every ill of the generations that came before them and that they are “privileged.”

Yes, there are still many white men in senior positions across America, but they are men from a different generation (often still baby boomers) and their experience was totally different from a young man today.

The old school Democratic Party wanted union voters, rural voters, working class white people who celebrated America, but the modern party is increasingly urban, coastal, and intolerant of anyone that deviates from their orthodoxy.

Does that make Trump a good alternative? Obviously not… but at this point you are dealing with voters who feel like they only have bad choices.

When someone is accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

I can't take any of the whining by white men seriously.

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Anonymous wrote:If you can’t see the hostility to young men, particularly straight white men, in the modern Left’s messaging you are willfully blind.

+1 The next step is to take up arms against the enemies who are placing obstacles in the way of employment and higher education.

I've seen "maga" men no one is afraid

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Anonymous wrote:They aren’t right-wing the way you think about it. They are disaffected and alienated, with no sense of hope for the future, and for the most part only the right-wing has recognized that. In NYC, Mamdani rode that same wave of disaffected populism very successfully. But otherwise, only the right-wing acknowledges the very real problems (lack of work, lack of hope for the future) facing young men. The left wing right now is largely either entirely corporatist or only focused on issues that primarily impact women.

No society does well long-term with large numbers of unemployed and underemployed young men. You can demonize young men for how they feel and their lived experiences (which is the typical response of your average DCUM Democrat and the Democratic establishment) or you can try not being arrogant and actually listening. I don’t think the Democrats survive as a party if they can’t start recognizing and acknowledging the struggles of young men. And it can be done well: look at Mamdani.

Yes, but the right doesn’t actually DO anything. They make up problems that they then “solve,” and eventually the marks will figure it out. It’s happening now in real time with Hispanics and other POC. Eventually the young men will figure out how useless and beta maga is.

But they aren’t voting for Democrats instead. They just aren’t voting at all.

The drastic over representation in every special election says that you are wrong. The democrats are cleaning house.

If the republicans can’t reel in crazy granpedo Trump they will lose both the house and the senate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you can’t see the hostility to young men, particularly straight white men, in the modern Left’s messaging you are willfully blind.

The entire identity/diversity movement is based on excluding straight white men.

What does BIPOC mean? It means “not white.”

What does it mean if an organization lacks diversity? It means too many men and/or too many white people. It never means too few men or white people.

If you are a young man who hasn’t found a place in the world you feel targeted, and you aren’t wrong.

This article is one perspective on the phenomenon: https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/

If the Democrats want to turn things around they need to understand that a young man coming of age in 2025 (particularly white men) finds himself in the minority, often a small minority, in universities, corporate America, the media, and every other path towards a stable upper middle class existence.

The Ivy League today is only roughly one third white and a bit over 50% female… leaving white males at roughly 15% of undergrads. Meanwhile they continue to be told that they are somehow responsible for every ill of the generations that came before them and that they are “privileged.”

Yes, there are still many white men in senior positions across America, but they are men from a different generation (often still baby boomers) and their experience was totally different from a young man today.

The old school Democratic Party wanted union voters, rural voters, working class white people who celebrated America, but the modern party is increasingly urban, coastal, and intolerant of anyone that deviates from their orthodoxy.

Does that make Trump a good alternative? Obviously not… but at this point you are dealing with voters who feel like they only have bad choices.

Unfortunately, young men are not going to be well represented in the C-suites of corporate America. (Older white men are extremely well represented). I don’t think you can point to that as evidence of discrimination.

It is true that women are outperforming men in the classroom and applying to selective colleges at higher rates. The solution to that is not to convince men college is a scam and academia is woke and unmanly. Nor is the solution to tell women that college is worthless and they should get married and have babies instead.

A more productive conversation about declining upward mobility would revolve around gatekeeping, late capitalism, cronyism, and corruption. Gender and race don’t have much to do with it, other than power still being largely an old boys club (which young men don’t have much access to, but did they ever?)

It is true that young white men are now facing barriers and feelings of exclusion. It is also true that these are similar to the barriers women and racial minorities have dealt with for all of human history. I’m not going to be unsympathetic and say “boo hoo”, because of course it sucks. It’s always sucked. But the solution is not to shove women and minorities back underwater so that white males have a better shot at the lifeboat (which is the solution the right is promoting, because it’s easy and doesn’t require any serious societal change and allows the billionaires to keep extracting riches). A better solution would be to make the lifeboat bigger.

As for BIPOC, the reason we have that abbreviation is that white men are considered to be the default human, and don’t require their own abbreviation. There’s no hostility or exclusion intended. It’s no different than adding a skirt to a standard stick figure to signify a female, or coloring it in to make it black. There are no “extras” to signify a white male, because that’s just what a stick figure is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you can’t see the hostility to young men, particularly straight white men, in the modern Left’s messaging you are willfully blind.

The entire identity/diversity movement is based on excluding straight white men.

What does BIPOC mean? It means “not white.”

What does it mean if an organization lacks diversity? It means too many men and/or too many white people. It never means too few men or white people.

If you are a young man who hasn’t found a place in the world you feel targeted, and you aren’t wrong.

This article is one perspective on the phenomenon: https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/

If the Democrats want to turn things around they need to understand that a young man coming of age in 2025 (particularly white men) finds himself in the minority, often a small minority, in universities, corporate America, the media, and every other path towards a stable upper middle class existence.

The Ivy League today is only roughly one third white and a bit over 50% female… leaving white males at roughly 15% of undergrads. Meanwhile they continue to be told that they are somehow responsible for every ill of the generations that came before them and that they are “privileged.”

Yes, there are still many white men in senior positions across America, but they are men from a different generation (often still baby boomers) and their experience was totally different from a young man today.

The old school Democratic Party wanted union voters, rural voters, working class white people who celebrated America, but the modern party is increasingly urban, coastal, and intolerant of anyone that deviates from their orthodoxy.

Does that make Trump a good alternative? Obviously not… but at this point you are dealing with voters who feel like they only have bad choices.

I'm so tired of hearing whining about the poor white male. How about we just all treat others like humans....I know crazy idea. Conservatives want to believe in god great they should but white conservative christians can't go around trying to control the rest of the people. Stop making excuses for white conservative men having tantrums because they can't control and force others to do things their way. I find conservative the most intolerant and often nasty humans and if you all truly believe that Trump was the better of the two options then you are a huge part of the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:If you can’t see the hostility to young men, particularly straight white men, in the modern Left’s messaging you are willfully blind.

The entire identity/diversity movement is based on excluding straight white men.

What does BIPOC mean? It means “not white.”

What does it mean if an organization lacks diversity? It means too many men and/or too many white people. It never means too few men or white people.

If you are a young man who hasn’t found a place in the world you feel targeted, and you aren’t wrong.

This article is one perspective on the phenomenon: https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/

If the Democrats want to turn things around they need to understand that a young man coming of age in 2025 (particularly white men) finds himself in the minority, often a small minority, in universities, corporate America, the media, and every other path towards a stable upper middle class existence.

The Ivy League today is only roughly one third white and a bit over 50% female… leaving white males at roughly 15% of undergrads. Meanwhile they continue to be told that they are somehow responsible for every ill of the generations that came before them and that they are “privileged.”

Yes, there are still many white men in senior positions across America, but they are men from a different generation (often still baby boomers) and their experience was totally different from a young man today.

The old school Democratic Party wanted union voters, rural voters, working class white people who celebrated America, but the modern party is increasingly urban, coastal, and intolerant of anyone that deviates from their orthodoxy.

Does that make Trump a good alternative? Obviously not… but at this point you are dealing with voters who feel like they only have bad choices.

When someone is accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

I can't take any of the whining by white men seriously.

Men coming of age in 2025 are hardly “accustomed to privilege.”

This does illustrate nicely the paradox of modern identity politics though, there is no more powerful status than victim hood, which is why it is so important that men (particularly straight white men) are excluded from claiming it.

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Anonymous wrote:No real man is liberal.

They can’t be. They have actively villainized masculinity for the better part of two decades.
And if—as the lefts tells you all day long — “representation matters” then it might be a good idea of someone on the left would start realizing that demonizing masculine traits in men makes men who have those natural traits feel undervalued and marginalized by what is supposed to be their own party.

Try naming five examples of a masculine democrat male leader in n politics and you’ll see what I mean.

Young men feel abandoned by the left. It’s not that difficult to decipher.
But instead you’d rather demonize him or infantilize him by imagining that he’s gone crazy or is ignorant. He is neither. He just doesn’t buy into hating himself for having natural male traits like ambition, competitiveness, and physical strength. He also might like the idea that one should be rewarded for his own work output capitalist model of America that the left seems to abhor right now.

Likely not impressed by republican leaders. Trump and Vance are not masculine men, Pence is weird, and Obama and Walz definitely are masculine men and strong family men so this argument falls apart just at the recent presidential level.

There is a lot of marketing towards men from the right and kids want to be counter cultural to their parents. Plus as the previous poster said, they likely haven't struggled much. If they are a good person they at least know that many on the right in politics are not speaking in a positive way. You can have conservative values and still hate the political fighting, insults, and lies. There are conservatives that still hated Rush Limbaugh and his kind.

If you think the bolded, you have no idea what masculine means.

Let me ask you a question. Do you think Trump is masculine?

I’m the PP who wrote that and yes, I do. Or rather, I recognize that most voters do. It is unfortunate because I despise Trump, but he is objectively funny and codes masculine to most voters. He speaks roughly, doesn’t use the baffling language of the progressive left, and makes people laugh. That’s masculine, whether you want to admit it or not.

Uh, no, that is not masculine in my book.

Because you are a very liberal white woman. To most of the rest of the voting population, that is clearly masculine.

Let me put it this way. Let’s say there was a national poll on this question: Who is more masculine, Trump or Walz?

There is only one demographic that would pick Walz over Trump, and that is liberal white women. It is possible that black women would lean Walz but it would be tight. But no other demographic would come close.

Personally this drives me nuts but I can recognize reality.

Trump masculine I can't stop laughing. He's a narcissist cry baby. Masculine

Seriously, he is such a victim. So masculine! 🙄

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Anonymous wrote:No real man is liberal.

They can’t be. They have actively villainized masculinity for the better part of two decades.
And if—as the lefts tells you all day long — “representation matters” then it might be a good idea of someone on the left would start realizing that demonizing masculine traits in men makes men who have those natural traits feel undervalued and marginalized by what is supposed to be their own party.

Try naming five examples of a masculine democrat male leader in n politics and you’ll see what I mean.

Young men feel abandoned by the left. It’s not that difficult to decipher.
But instead you’d rather demonize him or infantilize him by imagining that he’s gone crazy or is ignorant. He is neither. He just doesn’t buy into hating himself for having natural male traits like ambition, competitiveness, and physical strength. He also might like the idea that one should be rewarded for his own work output capitalist model of America that the left seems to abhor right now.

Likely not impressed by republican leaders. Trump and Vance are not masculine men, Pence is weird, and Obama and Walz definitely are masculine men and strong family men so this argument falls apart just at the recent presidential level.

There is a lot of marketing towards men from the right and kids want to be counter cultural to their parents. Plus as the previous poster said, they likely haven't struggled much. If they are a good person they at least know that many on the right in politics are not speaking in a positive way. You can have conservative values and still hate the political fighting, insults, and lies. There are conservatives that still hated Rush Limbaugh and his kind.

If you think the bolded, you have no idea what masculine means.

Let me ask you a question. Do you think Trump is masculine?

I’m the PP who wrote that and yes, I do. Or rather, I recognize that most voters do. It is unfortunate because I despise Trump, but he is objectively funny and codes masculine to most voters. He speaks roughly, doesn’t use the baffling language of the progressive left, and makes people laugh. That’s masculine, whether you want to admit it or not.

Uh, no, that is not masculine in my book.

Because you are a very liberal white woman. To most of the rest of the voting population, that is clearly masculine.

Let me put it this way. Let’s say there was a national poll on this question: Who is more masculine, Trump or Walz?

There is only one demographic that would pick Walz over Trump, and that is liberal white women. It is possible that black women would lean Walz but it would be tight. But no other demographic would come close.

Personally this drives me nuts but I can recognize reality.

Trump masculine I can't stop laughing. He's a narcissist cry baby. Masculine

Shrug. You are welcome to keep ceding political ground to the Republicans by refusing to face reality if you want. Me, I want to have a Democratic Party that has even a small chance of winning a national election in my lifetime again, and I know that won’t happen without being clear-eyed about the milquetoast candidates the Democrats keep putting forward.

You know I’m right. That’s why you are deflecting. In a national poll about who is more masculine, Trump would trounce Walz, except among very liberal whites women. And that’s a serious problem for Democrats.

Stop with the garbage....if "men" and you I suppose feel trump and his abusive and disgusting behavior towards other humans is masculine then we have a serious societal issue.

You keep avoiding the question. So let’s ask again. In a national poll across all demographic groups, who would win when the question is “Who is more masculine, Trump or Walz?”

You are avoiding answering because you know Trump would trounce Walz across the board, except for liberal white women. And yes, that is a problem. But your approach of avoidance doesn’t solve the problem. It does demonstrate why Democrats are so incompetent on the national stage, however.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They aren’t right-wing the way you think about it. They are disaffected and alienated, with no sense of hope for the future, and for the most part only the right-wing has recognized that. In NYC, Mamdani rode that same wave of disaffected populism very successfully. But otherwise, only the right-wing acknowledges the very real problems (lack of work, lack of hope for the future) facing young men. The left wing right now is largely either entirely corporatist or only focused on issues that primarily impact women.

No society does well long-term with large numbers of unemployed and underemployed young men. You can demonize young men for how they feel and their lived experiences (which is the typical response of your average DCUM Democrat and the Democratic establishment) or you can try not being arrogant and actually listening. I don’t think the Democrats survive as a party if they can’t start recognizing and acknowledging the struggles of young men. And it can be done well: look at Mamdani.

Yes, but the right doesn’t actually DO anything. They make up problems that they then “solve,” and eventually the marks will figure it out. It’s happening now in real time with Hispanics and other POC. Eventually the young men will figure out how useless and beta maga is.

But they aren’t voting for Democrats instead. They just aren’t voting at all.

The drastic over representation in every special election says that you are wrong. The democrats are cleaning house.

If the republicans can’t reel in crazy granpedo Trump they will lose both the house and the senate

Anyone who thinks special elections are remotely relevant to voting patterns in national elections doesn’t have the brains to be commenting.

I do think Democrats will win the midterms but I think they are cooked in the next presidential election unless they drastically change their approach.

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Anonymous wrote:No real man is liberal.

They can’t be. They have actively villainized masculinity for the better part of two decades.
And if—as the lefts tells you all day long — “representation matters” then it might be a good idea of someone on the left would start realizing that demonizing masculine traits in men makes men who have those natural traits feel undervalued and marginalized by what is supposed to be their own party.

Try naming five examples of a masculine democrat male leader in n politics and you’ll see what I mean.

Young men feel abandoned by the left. It’s not that difficult to decipher.
But instead you’d rather demonize him or infantilize him by imagining that he’s gone crazy or is ignorant. He is neither. He just doesn’t buy into hating himself for having natural male traits like ambition, competitiveness, and physical strength. He also might like the idea that one should be rewarded for his own work output capitalist model of America that the left seems to abhor right now.

Likely not impressed by republican leaders. Trump and Vance are not masculine men, Pence is weird, and Obama and Walz definitely are masculine men and strong family men so this argument falls apart just at the recent presidential level.

There is a lot of marketing towards men from the right and kids want to be counter cultural to their parents. Plus as the previous poster said, they likely haven't struggled much. If they are a good person they at least know that many on the right in politics are not speaking in a positive way. You can have conservative values and still hate the political fighting, insults, and lies. There are conservatives that still hated Rush Limbaugh and his kind.

If you think the bolded, you have no idea what masculine means.

Let me ask you a question. Do you think Trump is masculine?

I’m the PP who wrote that and yes, I do. Or rather, I recognize that most voters do. It is unfortunate because I despise Trump, but he is objectively funny and codes masculine to most voters. He speaks roughly, doesn’t use the baffling language of the progressive left, and makes people laugh. That’s masculine, whether you want to admit it or not.

Uh, no, that is not masculine in my book.

Because you are a very liberal white woman. To most of the rest of the voting population, that is clearly masculine.

Let me put it this way. Let’s say there was a national poll on this question: Who is more masculine, Trump or Walz?

There is only one demographic that would pick Walz over Trump, and that is liberal white women. It is possible that black women would lean Walz but it would be tight. But no other demographic would come close.

Personally this drives me nuts but I can recognize reality.

Trump masculine I can't stop laughing. He's a narcissist cry baby. Masculine

Shrug. You are welcome to keep ceding political ground to the Republicans by refusing to face reality if you want. Me, I want to have a Democratic Party that has even a small chance of winning a national election in my lifetime again, and I know that won’t happen without being clear-eyed about the milquetoast candidates the Democrats keep putting forward.

You know I’m right. That’s why you are deflecting. In a national poll about who is more masculine, Trump would trounce Walz, except among very liberal whites women. And that’s a serious problem for Democrats.

Stop with the garbage....if "men" and you I suppose feel trump and his abusive and disgusting behavior towards other humans is masculine then we have a serious societal issue.

I think that’s really it - masculinity has come to mean cruelty. What else about Trump is masculine? His vanity? Obsession with gold leaf and fancy ballrooms? His makeup? The only sport he plays is golf, which is hardly the past time of gladiators. But he is a real a-hole, which is I guess what being masculine is now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you can’t see the hostility to young men, particularly straight white men, in the modern Left’s messaging you are willfully blind.

The entire identity/diversity movement is based on excluding straight white men.

What does BIPOC mean? It means “not white.”

What does it mean if an organization lacks diversity? It means too many men and/or too many white people. It never means too few men or white people.

If you are a young man who hasn’t found a place in the world you feel targeted, and you aren’t wrong.

This article is one perspective on the phenomenon: https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/

If the Democrats want to turn things around they need to understand that a young man coming of age in 2025 (particularly white men) finds himself in the minority, often a small minority, in universities, corporate America, the media, and every other path towards a stable upper middle class existence.

The Ivy League today is only roughly one third white and a bit over 50% female… leaving white males at roughly 15% of undergrads. Meanwhile they continue to be told that they are somehow responsible for every ill of the generations that came before them and that they are “privileged.”

Yes, there are still many white men in senior positions across America, but they are men from a different generation (often still baby boomers) and their experience was totally different from a young man today.

The old school Democratic Party wanted union voters, rural voters, working class white people who celebrated America, but the modern party is increasingly urban, coastal, and intolerant of anyone that deviates from their orthodoxy.

Does that make Trump a good alternative? Obviously not… but at this point you are dealing with voters who feel like they only have bad choices.

You are correct but the far left extremists that post here on DCUM will never admit you are right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you can’t see the hostility to young men, particularly straight white men, in the modern Left’s messaging you are willfully blind.

The entire identity/diversity movement is based on excluding straight white men.

What does BIPOC mean? It means “not white.”

What does it mean if an organization lacks diversity? It means too many men and/or too many white people. It never means too few men or white people.

If you are a young man who hasn’t found a place in the world you feel targeted, and you aren’t wrong.

This article is one perspective on the phenomenon: https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/

If the Democrats want to turn things around they need to understand that a young man coming of age in 2025 (particularly white men) finds himself in the minority, often a small minority, in universities, corporate America, the media, and every other path towards a stable upper middle class existence.

The Ivy League today is only roughly one third white and a bit over 50% female… leaving white males at roughly 15% of undergrads. Meanwhile they continue to be told that they are somehow responsible for every ill of the generations that came before them and that they are “privileged.”

Yes, there are still many white men in senior positions across America, but they are men from a different generation (often still baby boomers) and their experience was totally different from a young man today.

The old school Democratic Party wanted union voters, rural voters, working class white people who celebrated America, but the modern party is increasingly urban, coastal, and intolerant of anyone that deviates from their orthodoxy.

Does that make Trump a good alternative? Obviously not… but at this point you are dealing with voters who feel like they only have bad choices.

I'm so tired of hearing whining about the poor white male. How about we just all treat others like humans....I know crazy idea. Conservatives want to believe in god great they should but white conservative christians can't go around trying to control the rest of the people. Stop making excuses for white conservative men having tantrums because they can't control and force others to do things their way. I find conservative the most intolerant and often nasty humans and if you all truly believe that Trump was the better of the two options then you are a huge part of the problem.

Agree. Liberal white male here who thinks MAGA white males are the worst kinds of snowflake milquetoasts.

Let's be real: It's a FACT that white males still have far more advantages in American society than anyone else. Boggles the mind that they have become such crybabies about it all. And likewise, Christians are NOT some "oppressed underclass" in America. There's a church on every fricken corner. We don't need prayer in schools, have your kids go to church and sunday school like normal Americans did for generations. All that is still there.

Stop playing the victim. You don't have a clue. Conservative white Christian males just come across as pathetic and whiny, and this "burn it all down" crap and voting for Trump who is the most un-Christlike figure in American politics is a total joke.

You all need to stop blaming everyone else and take a long hard look at yourselves.

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Anonymous wrote:No real man is liberal.

My husband and sons are. Why wouldn't they be?

They pee sitting down?

MAGA masculinity on display right here: weak locker room “zingers” from the 1950s.

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Your son has been a Trump fan for more than a decade at this point and you're just finding out? Good job creating a seven page thread out of a fake scenario.

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Anonymous wrote:If you can’t see the hostility to young men, particularly straight white men, in the modern Left’s messaging you are willfully blind.

The entire identity/diversity movement is based on excluding straight white men.

What does BIPOC mean? It means “not white.”

What does it mean if an organization lacks diversity? It means too many men and/or too many white people. It never means too few men or white people.

If you are a young man who hasn’t found a place in the world you feel targeted, and you aren’t wrong.

This article is one perspective on the phenomenon: https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/

If the Democrats want to turn things around they need to understand that a young man coming of age in 2025 (particularly white men) finds himself in the minority, often a small minority, in universities, corporate America, the media, and every other path towards a stable upper middle class existence.

The Ivy League today is only roughly one third white and a bit over 50% female… leaving white males at roughly 15% of undergrads. Meanwhile they continue to be told that they are somehow responsible for every ill of the generations that came before them and that they are “privileged.”

Yes, there are still many white men in senior positions across America, but they are men from a different generation (often still baby boomers) and their experience was totally different from a young man today.

The old school Democratic Party wanted union voters, rural voters, working class white people who celebrated America, but the modern party is increasingly urban, coastal, and intolerant of anyone that deviates from their orthodoxy.

Does that make Trump a good alternative? Obviously not… but at this point you are dealing with voters who feel like they only have bad choices.

When someone is accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

I can't take any of the whining by white men seriously.

Men coming of age in 2025 are hardly “accustomed to privilege.”

This does illustrate nicely the paradox of modern identity politics though, there is no more powerful status than victim hood, which is why it is so important that men (particularly straight white men) are excluded from claiming it.

Oh please. Nobody is excluding straight white men from victimhood. Trump is their role model.