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Democrats ponder the 'manosphere'
NBC News ^ | May 31, 2025 | Ben Kamisar and Alexandra Marquez

Posted on 05/31/2025 10:42:54 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Democrats know they have a problem with men, particularly the young men who have drifted away from them in recent years.

But six months after the gender gap contributed to the party’s disappointing showing in last year’s election, top Democrats are still throwing spaghetti at the wall, lacking a unified theory on how to win these voters back.

Some are trying to break into the culturally conservative podcasts that have thrived at building big audiences of Gen Z men. Some are ceding ground on issues Democrats have long seen as sacred in the culture war, while others insist that the party’s current message will work. Some are pitching grand plans about funding a new influencer ecosystem that subtly boosts the left.

At the center of all of this is an acknowledgement that public opinion on the Democratic Party has dipped to an all-time low, men are souring on the party especially quickly, and losing ground with about half the voting population isn’t a recipe for success. It’s weighing heavily on the minds of Democrats while making Republicans giddy: On Friday, President Donald Trump needled Democrats for wanting to “spend money to learn how to talk” to men.

Jeff Horwitt, a Democratic pollster with Hart Research Associates (who conducts the NBC News poll with a Republican counterpart), told NBC News that a look at recent presidential exit poll results shows that “when Democrats do well broadly with men, they are competitive. When Democrats are not competitive with men, Democrats lose.” And while Horwitt doesn’t believe Republicans “have a lock on young men,” the GOP spoke to their economic anxiety in 2024 in a way that loomed large in 2024.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: deceit; demedia; democrats; manipulation; men; pandering
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To: MinorityRepublican

policy policy policy

The word they can’t even conceive.


21 posted on 05/31/2025 12:00:10 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Young men aren’t stupid enough to fall for lesbians loudly proclaiming they like ‘frat boys’...

AND

The group that voted for Trump in the largest percentage wasn’t white men - it was Native American Indian men. And unless democrats can figure that out they will soon not exist as a political force. I know why and I’m not talking.


22 posted on 05/31/2025 12:00:30 PM PDT by GOPJ (What if stupidity isn’t about intelligence at all, but about surrendering the will to think?Bonhoeff)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Democrats have spent the last 30 years making policy that places every other special interest group out there in the front of the line ahead of men, doubly so if you're a white man. At the same time they're sending us to the back of the line they're picking our pockets to transfer wealth to their preferred interest groups. To not be able to understand why they're losing male voters is an exercise in burying their heads in the sand, it should be obvious.

While trying to figure out why they've lost male voters they also appear to think there's noting wrong with their positions, they're just not getting their messages across and need to work on better communication. That's like saying your dog just doesn't understand that you're beating it for it's own good, it would stop running away if it just understood. It doesn't quite work that way, when you've spent the last 30 years attacking men it shouldn't come as a surprise that men have stopped voting for you.

23 posted on 05/31/2025 12:01:19 PM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: MinorityRepublican

Democrats are the party of wealthy elites, war, regime change, constant meddling in the lives of others, high taxes, high regulations, massive inflation, wage stagnation and so much more. They have convinced generations to take on loads of debt to get an indoctrination that will make more Democrats. The only people who support them are the ignorant, the brainwashed, beta cuck males, the people who need to buy a vowel, the indebted and indoctrinated, the people who make their living by a government that taxes and regulates, and dissatisfied meddlesome white middle class women with chips on their shoulders. Why would men want to be associated with that motley crew?


24 posted on 05/31/2025 12:38:24 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They may eventually return to the Democratic Party after Trump and the Democrats stop being so WOKE.

That is not the impression I am getting. However I don’t see the Democrats ever “stop being so WOKE”.


25 posted on 05/31/2025 1:13:26 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I’ll take a wait and see...)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Liarcrats ponder the ‘manosphere’


26 posted on 05/31/2025 1:47:40 PM PDT by Rodm
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To: batazoid

Does Pete Buttgig think going for the JD Vance look is going to change his image?

Isn’t that a bit shallow or overly simplistic, if that is what he is doing?


27 posted on 05/31/2025 1:55:35 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: MinorityRepublican

They made it up but they can’t explain it and now they can’t even shut it down.


28 posted on 05/31/2025 1:57:46 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

No self-respecting man would want to be a beta-cuck. Hence they cannot be a Dim.


29 posted on 05/31/2025 9:56:54 PM PDT by vpintheak (Screw the ChiComms! America first!)
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