…and turned off by Obama…
Posted on 11/09/2024 9:51:41 AM PST by thecodont
In the months leading up to election day, pollsters were fixated on one demographic: young men. This group, often elusive in political data, was showing signs of a notable swing toward Donald Trump and away from the progressive viewpoints of young women.
Traditionally a policy wonk, Richard Reeves became an unlikely media mainstay this election cycle, sought after by those trying to decode the concerns and motivations of these gen Z male voters. Reeves is president of the American Institute for Boys and Men, which he started in 2023 to create research-based approaches to bettering the education, mental health, and work and family life of men. Many of the institute’s policy proposals were outlined in Reeves’s 2022 book Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It.
Before the election, Reeves told the Guardian he was critical of the Democrats’ inability to talk directly to men about their policy platform. He pointed to poorer educational outcomes with fewer men graduating from college and worsening standardized test scores. He also spoke about the worsening mental health, loneliness and suicide crises among this group and the lack of willingness by Democrats to address them directly. Now, with Trump claiming victory with significant support from American men, he says he understands why so many chose to vote Republican.
The day after the election, I spoke with Reeves to hear his take on the results and what they reveal about this misunderstood voting bloc.
Exit polls after an election are notoriously inaccurate. But do you think, from initial data, that young men played a big role in this election?
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
masculinity researcher
…and turned off by Obama…
Hmmm young men, feeling victimized by a political/media/legal system then see Trump subjected to Lawfare by the same political system and the Alt Left doesn’t understand why they might feel a connection to Trump?
Richard Reeves’s 2022 book, “ Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It,” told the Guardian he was critical of the Democrats’ inability to talk directly to men about their policy platform.
He pointed to:
<><>poorer educational outcomes
<><>fewer men graduating from college
<><>worsening standardized test scores
<><>worsening mental health, loneliness and suicide crises
<><>the lack of Democrats’ willingness to address them directly.
Now, with Trump’s victory made possible with significant support from
American men, Reeves says he understands why so many chose to vote Republican.
“Masculinity Researcher” is an actual job title?
🤣
> he was critical of the Democrats’ inability to talk directly to men
Democrats have no problem talking directly to men, or more accurately, AT them. They just don’t listen to or care what men say in response.
Gosh maybe young men are tired of being constantly demonized and having less qualified people always leapfrog over them.
The women are the ones moving, not the men. More young women are becoming liberal. Fewer men are getting useless degrees, and a greater percentage of men are paying off their college loans than women. We need to reform the college loan program so that colleges are responsible for non-payment of loans.
“So Republicans found success in the idea that the success of women has come at the expense of men.”
Just an example of the kind of lying, stupid reasoning why the democrats lost young men.
Almost 60% of college enrollment is WOMEN, yet something like 90% (guessing) of single-sex scholarships are for women.
The problem is REAL.
The party of faggotry, infantide, and sex surgeries is going to have limited appeal with normal people.
It perfectly captures the entire facade of duplicitous fraud that surrounded the wretched old @sshole.
You bet it does.
LOL
Sorry Johhnie.
That LOL was meant for MtnClimber’s post of that Thing that calls itself a woman :)
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