These young white guys may not have their finger on it, but they sense the world has been pulled out from under them. They have no notion of “privilege” but they feel something is missing their dads and grandads had.
Maybe 10-years ago I was running internet at a guy’s shop. Everyone was drinking and fucking around, discussing some politics. The guy’s son was about to graduate the bougie high school and was enraged that anyone was talking about free college tuition.
“College isn’t high school. Just because you get to attend free doesn’t mean you get a free diploma. Besides, what are you afraid of? Might have to compete with n******?”
And that last bit was exactly what he was afraid of. (Apologies, but I put it in words him and his father would use so it would hit home.) Being white is no longer an automatic ticket to the middle class. Hell, what middle class?
I’ll never understand why neither Harris nor at least Walz didn’t fully pierce into the echo-chamber of the manosphere.
I thought this was half the point of picking Walz who could hold his own on guns and sports with Joe Rogan and all that shit.
The closest Harris got was… Going on on Howard Stern? Gen Z men aren’t listening to Stern.
Edit: I know why. They miscalculated (and I did, too). They thought women alone would turn out in a proportion greater than the historically-low turnout of young men. More than that, millions just fell for the both sides disinfo ops and sat out. But that doesn’t change the point that it was low risk / high reward to go on those outlets.
My theory has been that left leaning men let other voices be heard. That came at the cost of letting the right fill the power vacuum. The left need to let their own assholes be assholes.
I think Democrats have needed more chaotic good and lawful evil parts of the chart. Everyone else on the left need to realize those guys will need to say the wrong things for the right reasons. After all the messaging is not for you. It’s for the boys with a tendency to the right.
What they say will not agree with you. Lose the battle, win the war.