If former President Donald Trump wins reelection next Tuesday, it will be because historically high percentages of black and Hispanic voters pulled the lever for the Republican candidate. If recent polls are to be believed, these GOP inroads into minority communities will be driven almost entirely by men abandoning the Democratic Party.
We know this phenomenon is real because Vice President Kamala Harris and her Democratic Party allies have explicitly tried to craft new messages to appeal to male voters in the election’s closing weeks. Unfortunately for them, the substance of these appeals betrays a warped and insulting understanding of who men are and what they want from their government.
Harris this month unveiled an “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men” featuring the legalization of “recreational marijuana” and a new “regulatory framework for cryptocurrency … so Black men who invest in and own these assets are protected.”
Then, last weekend, Harris’s running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), tried to engage men by streaming a video of himself playing the popular football video game Madden with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Walz’s social media team later botched the effort by posting on X, “AOC can run a mean pick 6,” which is not something anyone who understands football has ever said (A “pick 6” is shorthand for an interception run back for a touchdown. It is the result of a botched play, not a play or formation a coach runs deliberately).
Separately, the Progress Action Fund, whose motto is “When Republicans go low, we go lower,” is spending millions of dollars on an ad depicting a young man in bed watching pornography. He is interrupted by a Republican congressman who says, “Now that we’re in charge, we’re banning porn nationwide.” When a young man on The Dan Le Batard Show said he was “pro-porn,” and the ad convinced him to vote for Harris, Walz responded, “Hey, you do what you do. You be you.”
This is the Democratic Party’s ideal young man: a loser smoking marijuana in his apartment, playing video games, watching porn, and gambling on crypto.
There are indeed some young men who fit this description and who may respond to this message. Far too many men have been seduced by altered states of consciousness, virtual worlds, and instant gratification.
However, those men are not the great majority, and most other young men realize this is a hollow and unfulfilling existence. They want more. The Democratic Party doesn’t have to venture far out of its media bubble to find out what young men really want. In an item titled, The Gender Election, a New York Times reporter talked to men and asked them what they wanted out of life.
The answers were promising and honorable.
“Honestly, as dumb as it sounds, as long as I make enough money to support myself and my fiancée, and God-willing, us be able to afford to have children, that’s my goal,” said one young man.
That’s what most men really want: a government that will help them become protectors and providers for the women in their lives, including a wife and children.
However, the modern Democratic Party cannot or will not embrace this, for such ideas contradict its entire agenda, which is geared toward creating a welfare state and a “care economy” so women don’t need men. Instead of organizing public policy to incentivize young men and women to create stable families, the left-wing party has cut men out of the picture, offering them a thin gruel of marijuana, video games, and porn.
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Men are tired of being lectured about how oppressed women are, while women consistently graduate from high school at higher rates than men do, making up 60% of all college students and 66% of college graduates. Men are tired of being convicted of sexual malfeasance in kangaroo courts without due process. Men are tired of hearing about a “patriarchy” that supposedly benefits them but never actually delivers a decent-paying job or an affordable house.
Harris and the Democratic Party may still win this election on the strength of women, as they are more reliable voters than men. However, if it wants to form a governing coalition that can win the House and the Senate, too, it will have to come to a better understanding of who men are and what they want.