Democrats can’t figure out why they’re hemorrhaging young male voters — and party leaders are so baffled that they’ve thrown $20 million toward studying their predicament.
I’ll give them the punchline for free: It’s all the man-bashing.
Progressives waged war on toxic masculinity, insisting that we should “believe all women” and claiming that red meat is a right-wing thing. Is it any wonder men have said “no thanks”?
Despite the obvious, the Democratic Party has reportedly poured eight figures into an effort dubbed SAM, short for “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan” — probing men as though they are some alien species.
The report, according to the New York Times, promises to “study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in [young male] spaces.” Sounds like a lot of gobbledygook.
Dems like California Governor Gavin Newsom and Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear reportedly discussed how to reach the average American man at the Future Forward PAC conference held at… the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, California.
What they could have done instead is listen to other people in their own party.
When DNC vice chair David Hogg had the gall to say the Democrats should pay more attention to young men — good advice from a real-life 25-year-old male — party leaders reacted by calling for an election to void his position, allegedly in political retribution.
Appearing on “Real Time with Bill Maher” on May 9, Hogg lamented that his party was leaving young men behind.
“What I think happened last election is younger men — they would rather vote for somebody who they don’t completely agree with [but] who they don’t feel judged by, than somebody who they do agree with [but] that they feel like they have to walk on eggshells around constantly because they’re going to be judged or ostracized or excommunicated,” he said.
Bingo.
When former Bernie Sanders supporter and ultimate bro whisperer Joe Rogan invited Kamala Harris onto his podcast during the last election cycle — even entering into negotiations about discussion topics — the candidate turned him down, leaving Trump with a slam dunk.
Harris’ clear message? Screw you men, we don’t really care.
The result: Trump won voters under 26, white men, black men and 18-year-old non-white men, while his support among men overall swelled from 49% in 2020 to 55% in 2024.
Sure, the Dem’s SAM report isn’t wrong. It suggested advertising more in video games and shifting language away from a “moralizing tone” towards men. This is all true — but it’s also too little, too late.
This is, after all, the party that insisted Doug Emhoff had “reshaped the perception of masculinity” on the campaign trail. Meanwhile, progressive ideology pushed by the Dems has told young men they are intrinsically toxic and their concerns aren’t a priority.
And, as one X user aptly pointed out, mainstream media headlines have even gone as far as to malign workouts, red meat and hot girls as “right wing.”
You don’t necessarily have to go as far as Hulk Hogan ripping apart his own T-shirt to reveal a “Trump Vance 2024” tank top underneath, as happened at the Republican National Convention. But that sent a message that masculinity isn’t shamed around here.
“The progressive left sometimes thinks or talks about masculinity in this kind of toxic way, which I think creates an opportunity for the right to actually say, no, masculinity is a good thing,” Richard Reeves, president of The American Institute for Boys and Men, told The Post.
“One of the markers of being on the right now is to actually just be unapologetic about being a guy and being masculine and not having to apologize for mansplaining and ‘toxic masculinity’ and manspreading and all of that.”
Seems like a pretty obvious message, and one that doesn’t cost $20 million.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
