The Revenge of the Silent Male Voter

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The Revenge of the Silent Male Voter

A long but worthwhile read

When I arrived at my final stop of the evening—a private underground bar in the Lower East side of the city—a celebratory atmosphere had begun to explode. The betting markets tipped a Trump win, and online supporters of Harris had started to express acceptance of defeat. The beer here had already run dry. It was so bustling that it was hard to move, with young men in their twenties and early thirties outnumbering women by 2:1. These men were diverse: white, black, Hispanic, Asian. A few wore Trump caps, but the aesthetic was more like a university dorm than a MAGA rally. "This is the counter-culture," one party goer told me. "This isn't just about Trump," another said. "It's about Vance and Musk. It's about American dynamism."

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... I attended an exclusive, well-heeled party. I spoke to various professionals who said that they had never voted Republican in their lives, but had voted for Trump that day due to his support—in their words—"for the Jews." These Manhattanites told me that Kamala was too sympathetic to the "pro-Hamas contingent" of the far-Left, and at a time of rising antisemitism, they couldn't bring themselves to support her. This small group of cosmopolitans represented a contingent far-removed from the stereotypical MAGA voter. And yet listening to their views, it again occurred to me: if I could find such support for Trump in the middle of a Democratic heartland—what might it look like in the rest of the country?

Oooof.

And the money shot;

In the coming days, much will be written about working class concerns—issues that have become familiar focal points for those seeking to understand Trump's support. But while inflation and border policies will have no doubt played a role in the Republicans' landslide victory, we might also want to look at the sentiments expressed by young male voters—voters who represent a new and emerging contingent in American politics. Nothing about the young men I spoke to appeared particularly conservative or "right-wing." Yet it was easy for them to explain why they voted for Trump. And if we zoom out and look at broader cultural trends, it should be easy for us to understand too.
If we take a macro perspective, we see that such young men have never known a culture in which males are not routinely described as "problematic," "toxic," or "oppressive." Going to university, and working at modern companies, they live in a world of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies—many of which promote an insidious and pervasive form of anti-male discrimination. Yet to talk about it in public invites social ostracism. To criticise DEI is to risk being called a Nazi.

And there is that.

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But wait, there's more;

Today we acknowledge historical figures not for their feats, but for their crimes.

One of their favorite targets; the founding fathers. Who were so unabashedly racist they actually created the very framework from which wrongs like slavery could be righted. That is NEVER acknowledged.

The problem with this way of viewing the world is that it is alienating and self-defeating. It is also wrong. By any objective standards, Elon Musk is a great man of history, who is influencing the course of human civilisation for generations to come. As one party-goer told me, "He caught a fucking rocket with mechanical chopsticks." Yet despite his achievements, Musk is more likely to be scorned than celebrated by the Democratic establishment.