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During the 2020 presidential race, Bernie Sanders’ campaign decided to praise Joe Rogan approval. THE The backlash was fast: The initiates of the Democratic Party and the activists aligned by the party demanded that Sanders apologize and cancel its support for approval. The general consensus seemed to be that, as an emphasis on “regressive” masculinity, Rogan could not be tolerated inside the blue tent. Last month, as a sign of how political calculation has changed since then, the Democratic Party announced that it was ready to spend A little fortune to “find” his own “Joe Rogan”.
At present, the Democratic Party “Masculinity problem“Is a well -known phenomenon. announced its intention To spend scary sums of money to better understand the minds of men and thus develop a strategy on the best way to bring them back to the party fold.
Politico now provides more context About the Speaking With American Men (or SAM) project, which says it is ready to spend 20 million dollars to understand modern man and how best please. Sam has already finished a first series of research on his exotic subject, which he shared exclusively with Politico. The point of sale notes that this first foray into guy studies included 30 discussion groups and a national media consumption survey. The results of these investigations are quite simple: they found that many young men “believe that” none of the parties has their backs “, as a black man of Georgia said in a discussion group.” Participants also described Democrats as “too sealed and cautious, while the Republicans are considered confident and fearless to offend”.
“Democrats are considered weak, while the Republicans are considered strong,” he said Hogue, co -founder of Sam, in Politico. “The young men also talked about being invisible to the democratic coalition, and therefore you have this weak problem and then you have that:” I do not think they care about me “, and I think that the combination is a kind of killer.” Hogue also noted that Sam had a plan to reach his lost demography by widening his presence in online platforms where men generally get together:
Hogue said part of Sam’s mission “Super Charg[ing] Social listening »and progressive influencers on discord, Twitch and other platforms in their fundraising proposal. They urge Democratic candidates to use non -traditional digital advertising, especially on digital announcements and sports and games in the game.
However, whether Hogue has identified the problem or not, his efforts seem to be doomed to failure. Indeed, the effort itself is the problem. By studying men as if they were an extraterrestrial life force instead of 50% of the population, the Democrats have already turned out to be completely and completely lame and, appropriately, not viriant. Do real men waste big sums of money by teaching to speak to other men? I don’t remember seeing John Wayne do this.
It took approximately a decade to the Democratic Party to widen in this hole, and they will probably take a decade to crawl. Indeed, since 2016, the party has largely balanced on social issues – a process that has meant to be distant from “traditional” men and addressing the interests of women and minorities. For about the same period, a reactionary feminist policy –partially stimulated by Trump himself—Came in power that openly sought to demonize men. This policy accused American men of a variety of social ills, of spreading it to massage through “patriarchy”, “Culture of rape”, “ “”toxic masculinity,“” Fragility “, the embodiment and a host of other questions. The Democrats, who have traditionally been attached to the hip in the women’s movement, were trained in this marshy by association. The results were predictable. more and more trendWhile young men derived to the right. A NBC survey Earlier this year, showed an “amazing” gap between men and women from Gen-Z, with laminated alignments according to the party’s parts.
Democratic strategists have focused on the technological platforms they can use to reach young men. It is an important part of the puzzle, but ultimately not the most important. Technology is not as important as what democrats say once they have obtained these platforms. Gavin Newsom recently launched his own podcast, a daring decision that did not really bear fruit because his messages were everywhere. Other democratic personalities, including Bernie Sanders (and, quite interesting, Anthony Weiner in disgrace) have sought to fit into the long -shaped podcast circuit where young men live numerically.
The conservatives, on the other hand, have proven themselves incredibly able to arm the media to their advantage. Trump was able to capitalize on the disaffection of young men with the Democrats during the 2024 electoral cycle by pressing in the media ecosystem where these voters lived: the so-called “Manosphere” circuit of podcasts focused on men like Joe Rogan, Theo von and blatant.
But again, the support is less important than the message. Trump’s oratorical style is caricative masculine – released like a mixture between Huey Long and Tony Montana. For many men, however, it works. There is a reason that Scarpace is a classic “guy” film: its protagonist is only a large flight libido, all “balls” – a man who does what he wants, when he wants, all the consequences are damned. Likewise, Trump’s political style is undoubtedly all the balls and no brain. It seems to speak and act of his instinct in a way that feels without eyeshadows and affirmative, even if the contents of what he says and does is often silly and inductor of the candlestick.
I guess what I try to say is that Democrats could save $ 20 million by simply spending a weekend watching action films from the 1980s. In fact, Die hard is guaranteed to teach the Middle Glasses Plus Glasses Survey more on average male psychology than a dozen “discussion groups”. For what? Because it happened at a time when American masculinity with red blood was still a dominant part of culture. John McClane is a cowboy in a concrete and steel Wild West. He cursed, he smokes and he waste his enemies with a machine gun and a sly smile. I do not suggest that Tim Waltz should send his enemies with a Beretta, simply stressing that if he was talking about doing it (As Trump did) It may not be the worst thing in the world.
