How to Sink the MAGA Armada

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After I got here aboard the SS Month-to-month two years in the past, my editors inspired me to search for over-the-horizon tales. I dug into how Republican leaders had been borrowing speaking factors from chauvinistic “manosphere” influencers to achieve lonely younger males. In 2016, “Trump proved the potential of disillusioned younger males as a progress demographic,” I wrote, and his imitators had been studying to “leverage on-line male grievance in electoral politics.” 

Matthew Cooper, our govt editor—digital, inspired me to match this tactic to what Democrats had been doing: nothing. “By failing to articulate a dedication to serving to younger males, the left has let Republicans fill the vacuum,” I wrote. “They’re failing to reveal the fraudulence of the best and leaving votes on the desk.” What would possibly the political penalties be? 

My story landed me an look on Morning Joe. Claire McCaskill, the previous Senate Democrat defeated for her seat in 2018 by Josh Hawley, the Ivy League-educated MAGA fanatic who had simply penned a guide on manhood, was one other on-air visitor that day. McCaskill voiced her fear after studying my story that her get together wasn’t “accounting for the Joe Rogans of the world.” 

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Sadly, the 2024 election proved her warnings, and mine, disastrously correct. Exit polls confirmed younger males shifted practically 30 factors in direction of Trump in comparison with simply 4 years in the past. On social media, liberals searched desperately for a liberal Rogan-like determine to shut the testosterone hole.

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