I found this interesting. I've been ranting about it, so I figured I should post some sources. So here ya' go.
Ignore and insult one of the largest voting demographics, and well, this is what you get.
Ignore and insult? Government is built around people like, white men. I still haven't endured this "insulting". I think what is meant is some white people are insulted when they aren't the only people considered when developing policy.
Consider that Gen Z males voted for Trump in much larger numbers than for Harris.
Why do you think that is?
They find the strongman "alpha male" image appeals to them, probably? Also they think of Trump as a business man and stupidly imagine that'll help them economically... this hooked a LOT of men.
I'll agree with that--that to a large degree there is this uneducated delusion that Trump is a good businessman, which is clearly ridiculous. The notion that government should be run like a business is an old but stupid concept.
I also think that a lot of stupid, stupid people believe in the "alpha male" thing, which is yet another idiotic notion.
That said, it can't be possible that
all of them based their vote on those false ideas. Overall, men voted overwhelmingly for Trump, which appears to indicate that many men, and not just white men, are put off by the Democratic party. Thus, the question is
why.
We don't need and it's not realistic to suggest that we could get most of them back. 10-15% would be more than sufficient. So then the question becomes
how we get them back.
For the ones that are gettable, it needs to be communicated (somehow) that they're wanted; that the demeaning rhetoric towards them is not what the Democratic party is about. Leftists can cringe all they want at the term "white male bashing", but dammit, it is a factor in driving away this demographic.
I cannot put into words how much I despise Trump and what he's done to this nation, but what he has been successful at doing is, in one way or another, communicating to this demographic that they're not the inherently bad people the extremist leftists tell them they are, that they're not automatically privileged, and that their concerns are legitimate.
The reductive idea that someone has it worse than you, so shut the fuck up is insulting and has driven these people away in droves. Communicate to someone that they don't belong and they
will go away.