Spoiler alert: Nothing will be learned from it.
When Hillary Clinton lost a narrow election to Donald Trump, Democrats and progressives wasted no time in heaping blame on white women as the scapegoat for their own choice of nominees. In the wake of last November’s more humiliating election loss, Democrats found a new cohort to blame: young men. A shift among Latinos, black voters, and younger voters in general got telescoped down to men under 30, and Democrats realized that they knew less about young men than they do about white women.
Thus they determined to explore the heretofore unknown expanses of New Bro-Land, donning pith helmets and native guides to find out about this amazing yet elusive tribe. Politico reports that the $20 million excursion has concluded, and that young men turn out to be just like you and me.
Or something:
“Democrats are seen as weak, whereas Republicans are seen as strong,” Hogue said. “Young men also spoke of being invisible to the Democratic coalition, and so you’ve got this weak problem and then you’ve got this, ‘I don’t think they care about me’ problem, and I think the combination is kind of a killer. …
The focus groups found that young men feel they are in crisis: stressed, ashamed and confused over what it means to be a man in 2025. They vented about conflicting cultural messages of masculinity that put them in a “no-win situation around the meaning of ‘a man,’” according to the SAM project memo.
Here’s a challenge for the Democrats reading this study: Define “man.” The problem isn’t “conflicting cultural messages,” it’s that Democrats have endorsed fantasy life over biological reality. They have wrapped themselves around the trans and queer movement to such an extent that Democrats can no longer safely state without reservation that a man is an adult male human based solely on biology. Joe Biden’s one appointment to the Supreme Court, a supposedly learned and wise jurist named Ketanji Brown Jackson, couldn’t provide an answer when asked to define the word “woman,” either.
That’s bad for both sexes, but progressive agitation over “toxic masculinity” makes it worse for men, especially younger men with less experience in life. Those conflicting cultural messages do create dissonance for men who see these attacks as criticisms not of particular behaviors but of all men based on their biology.
The only way to reach young men is to have a definition of man that matches biological reality and that doesn’t carry an indictment with it. Will Democrats learn that lesson and dump their trans-queer obsession? Absolutely not, at least not until they suffer more than just one big loss. So why bother asking?
The rest of this study produces a much more generic set of criticisms that could apply to voters across the spectrum:
They described how the Covid pandemic left them isolated and socially disconnected. They also said they now feel overwhelmed by economic anxiety, making “traditional milestones,” like buying a home or saving for kids’ college, “feel impossible,” an analysis of the research said.
“The degree to which those economic concerns are also impacting how they think about themselves and quote-unquote success of being a man, and living up to their own expectations or the expectations of their family or society,” Della Volpe said. “There’s another layer of economic anxiety that I don’t think I fully saw until now.”
Economic anxiety explains a lot about the previous election, as does action versus rhetoric, but that’s not limited to young men. Democrats allowed and encouraged illegal aliens by the millions to flood into the US over the last four years, making housing scarcer and much more expensive while eating up employment opportunities. Separately, Joe Biden’s economic policies touched off an inflationary wave not seen in 40 years, a wave that stripped people of buying power — and which hit younger workers hardest.
Democrats’ problems run even deeper than this. Look at their choices of nominees and party leaders over the last eight years:
- Hillary Clinton: an entitled corruptocrat who got the party to squeeze out almost all competition in the primaries until Bernie Sanders’ outside-the-establishment challenge nearly derailed her coronation
- Joe Biden: A senile corruptocrat and vicious demagogue whose family was already known to be influence peddlers, and who had to basically hide out for most of the campaign to prevent those issues from emerging
- Joe Biden II: Sharp As A Tack® and Running Rings Around Aides Twice His Age!
- Kamala Harris: The anointed and incompetent nominee after a cooked primary kept Biden on the ticket for a second term, necessary when Democrats’ massive fraud on the electorate got exposed in Biden’s decidedly unsharp debate performance.
Democrats have problems with more than just young men, and messaging and policy won’t fix it. Democrats have a fraud problem, and on top of that a reality problem. They can’t expect to compete until they deal decisively to resolve both of those problems. But in the meantime, consultants and analysts with pith helmets and telescopes will make a lot of cash telling Democrats stories that will allow them to avoid their real disasters.
