The Left can win Trump voting men back – what we need to learn

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Martyn Bradbury
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If the Left wants to win the next election (or snap election), then we need to bring men back to the Left.

Thanks to our beloved woke middle class identity politics whanau, we drove men into the arms of the reactionary right.

We can win those male voters back, and quite frankly HAVE TO, to win the next election.

Many young men are lost and alienated, pushing them further away by framing all men as the problem drives them into the arms of those who would manipulate their identity crisis.

The worst thing about identity politics is when men start seeing them selves as the victims.

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The US presidential election seemed to mark a backlash to changing gender roles. But most Trump-voting men say they don’t want to return to the past.

President Donald Trump’s reelection seemed to mark a cultural turning point on gender – a backlash to #MeToo and other progress for women’s rights, and a return to a time when men could be men.

His campaign told men that they had lost their status in American society and that the Trump administration would restore it. Vice President JD Vance reiterated the point at a gathering of conservatives last month: “Don’t allow this broken culture to send you a message that you’re a bad person because you’re a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends or because you’re competitive.”

It’s a message many Trump-voting men want to hear: Republican men are more likely than others to agree that Americans have negative views of manly men. Nearly half say that’s true, compared with a quarter of people overall, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted during the campaign, findings that have been reflected in other polls.

But survey data, academic research and interviews with Trump-voting men suggest that most don’t want to return to a more traditional masculinity either, one that requires men to be aggressive, dominant or stoic. Instead, they want Americans to have a different take on masculinity – one that is positive instead of negative, and broad instead of narrow.

Overall, respondents were more likely than not to say American society places too much emphasis on traditionally masculine traits like physical strength and risk-taking. A majority thought there wasn’t enough emphasis on being caring or open about emotions.

And a majority – including a majority of Republicans – said certain behaviours by men were unacceptable, like talking about women in a sexual way, drinking too much or throwing a punch.

That is not always the message from the president – who has been found liable for sexual abuse, said he’d “protect” women “whether the women like it or not”, and was instrumental in ending abortion rights nationwide – or from members of his administration or right-wing influencers.

The president “is delivering results to improve the lives of women across the country”, said Anna Kelly, a White House spokesperson, including by hiring female senior staff and through executive orders to expand in-vitro fertilisation access and ban transgender women from participating in women’s sports.

Trump-voting men don’t necessarily share macho or sexist beliefs, the survey and interviews show. Instead, many think progressives have gone too far.

…apparently the intersectionist woke dogma that painted all heteronormative cis males as toxic masculinity was a tad alienating.

The truth is wounded masculinity is doing more damage and labelling them as toxic is deeply counter productive.

Boys growing up without dads are in crisis, report says

  • By the age of 14, almost half of first-born children do not live with both natural parents, compared to 21% for those born in 1970
  • Boys are now more likely to own a smartphone than to live with their dad
  • Boys are struggling in education, more likely to take their own lives, less likely to get into stable work, and far more likely to be caught up in crime
  • As the likelihood of a masculine presence in the home diminishes, young men are seeking new modes of masculinity, like the controversial social media personality Andrew Tate
  • Lawrence Dallaglio, the former England rugby union captain, backed the report, stating: “We have been so careless in our downgrading of the traditional masculine virtues that we are in danger of leaving a whole generation behind.”

It costs less money long term to fix hurt boys than angry men.

 

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21 COMMENTS

  1. “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”

    Alexander the Great

    Watch out for lions.

  2. That would require an actual left.

    Meanwhile, the only party that doesn’t vote 95% with National and ACT in Parliament is the Maori Party. But I guess that party, which actually works for working people of all ethnicities, is just too woke, right?

  3. I assume when masculinity is uttered they mean a time when men owned women. Pain on public shaming for suppressing emotions is not a very healthy way of dealing with men who still have the luxury of youth.

    These are the exact same kids that are guilty tripped into pouring there own blood and tears into building hospitals so that other kids can mutilate there genitals and constantly belittle because weaker people can’t compete.

    You’ve heard it be for “you can’t score because it’s unfair.” Rather than training ones body and mind it’s the obsession with and fear of inferior people who can’t compete. Dreaming big, fighting to achieve one’s goals. Fighting to become stronger then understanding that you capacity for violence is learning how, when and why to use it are not traits that happened by coincidence to oppress woman.

    These are exactly the traits that gave woman the vote with none of the responsibility of fighting wars against dictators and human rights abusers.

    We need solders, carpenters, engineers, scientists and mathematicians. These are the people that built everything. Defeated the Nazis the real ones not your imagined made up ones or evolving fascists.

    Having a military is a positive which is why every fucking nation on the planet has one.

    And yet the less traditional masculinity there is the more men kill themselves. How strange.

    The less traditional masculinity the less succesful men are in the dating world, leading to resentment and elements like Incels and redpill.

    The less traditional masculinity examples in a child’s life there is the greater the chance of child committing crime or suicide later down the line.

    Hmmmmm strange indeed.

  7. What Martyn does not accept is that his class-based approach has lost and young men can see exactly what its replacement is like. There’s no going back from that.

    • You see the guy on the right in the cartoon. That’s the young men you are talking about.
      What do they have to offer? Not a lot.
      Do they fill you with confidence that they actually know what they are doing?
      It’s not as if we are missing anything valuable, is it?
      Will they benefit the right? Quite soon they won’t bother voting at all. The right will have let them down and had expectations of them that they cannot meet, just as the left did.
      But you are right about there being no going back. Looks like actual doers and thinkers will be weighed down by these man-babies who have stagnated into nothing.

  8. Look, if a section of burger munching oafs are determined to revisit the worst elements of maleness to boost their self esteem, leave it to their contemporaries to try and sort them out.

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